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Cozy canyon part III

Monday, 23 November 2020

Let's continue with some more impressions of the Thaya Valley National Park. The park celebrates its 20^th anniversary this year. As already mentioned, it's Austria's smallest national park, covering an area of about 13 km². For comparison, the High Tauern National Park has a size of 1,856 km². And behind the Gesäuse National Park, it's the second youngest national park in this country. The reserve is also widely known for a few evidences of the "extinct" European Wildcat which seems to make a shy revival in Austria, which is great news. But of course, it is actually impossible to spot one of these wild creatures in the park. But to know that they might roam around somewhere in these woods is already a pleasure.

Cozy canyon part II

Friday, 13 November 2020

Although the Thaya Valley National Park has its very delightful wild side, it's probably Austria's most tranquil and calmest national park. Anyhow it's the smallest of this country's six national parks. And because of these facts, I enjoy it so very much. It's such a cozy and peaceful place, but it offers quite a lot of possibilities for exciting encounters and sightings at the same time. The valley is home for rare and fascinating species like the Eurasian Otter, Black Stork, Bald Eagle, European Crayfish, European Green Lizard and so on. But not only the fauna there is pretty lovely, also the mostly unaffected woodlands with an extremely diverse tree population invite for a walk at any time of the year. And last but not least the Thaya River itself is a very calm and gentle stream which marks the border between Austria and the Czech Republic.

Cozy canyon part I

Wednesday, 11 November 2020

Finally I'm pleased to show my first set of images I took in this crazy year of 2020. It displays the first part, out of four, of impressions I captured during my three trips to Austria's smallest national park, the Thaya Valley National Park. Actually Sabine and myself intended to explore Scandnavia again this year, this time as a little family, but as you all know, things turned out quite different and so we spent lots of time in the outdoors of our home country. In terms of photography, I have to say that it was quite a productive year for me so far. I managed to take numerous images, I'm pretty happy with. During the upcoming winter months I'll try to work on all the thousands of images I still haven't gone through to serve you some moments of nature's grace, fragility and value. Let's treat our natural world, like ourselves would like to be treated, because we are part of it and it is part of us. And although there don't have to be "measurable reasons", like facts about biodiversity, CO2 or economy, that convince us to take care of mother nature, this pandemic shows us pretty clearly that we cannot disconnect ourselves from it and it will survive us in any case. It's on us, whether we'll be part of its future or not.

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