Ήρθε το καλοκαίρι… Προσθέστε μόνο τον τζίτζικα 🙂

Summer is here… Just add the cicadas!

Olive tree.

Η κρυφή είσοδος του φαραγγιού της Ελιγιάς. The hidden entrance to Eligia Gorge.
You have to follow an invisible zigzag to enter. Impossible to imagine it’s there unless you already know!

The ottoman castle of Agia Roumeli.

It is a steep climb but definitely worth it. The view is breathtaking as you can spontaneously see the whole bay as well as the entrance of the gorge and the White Mountains. On our way up we met many old trees.

This was the day before the new queen bees that we had created were going to break out of their queen cells. It is absolutely critical to seperate them before they exit because otherwise the first one out will kill the rest in order to remain the only queen in the hive. Therefore we removed the queencells from the incubating mother hive and seperated them. Then we went to the small new hives we are growing.

These are three small hives that are connected to a mother hive. They are being nourished by this mother hive and it’s queen but they don’t have a queen of their own and they are seperated from each other and the mother by a net. In each new hive we have already inserted a strong honeycob with many bees from another hive and two new empty ones.

So we opened each of the new hives and inserted the queen cell. This way the next day teh new queen will crawl out of it’s cell to it’s all new hive that belongs only to her and doesn’t have to fight any rivals. And if succesful we will have created 12 new bee hives!

As you can see our beehives are place up on the hill in the old village of Agia Roumeli. The view is great from up there!

It was a great beekeeping lesson! Thank you Raquel and Carsten for joining and enjoying!

It was completely impossible to capture the beauty of this walk in a picture.

Δέντρο στο φαράγγι της Ελιγιάς.
Tree in Eligias gorge.

Agia Roumeli bay from above

Snake enlarged Ο όφης… Στο φαράγγι της Ελιγιάς. Look who we found…our friend the snake. Hiking in Eligias Gorge.

Ο όφης… Στο φαράγγι της Ελιγιάς. Look who we found… Hiking in Eligias Gorge.