It was the day that we headed back down to the coast that we saw the most amazing olive trees on the sides of the road, and as we walked through olive groves. If you’d asked me beforehand I’d probably say that one olive tree is pretty much like any other, but I’d be wrong - and I was surrounded by the evidence on that walk! Of course there were many that looked similar but there were also many, and I’m only sharing a few here, that were the most gnarliest and stubborn trees I’ve ever seen.
I could have snapped so many more, but we as had a hotel to get find that was deemed to be the priority!
Once we started to notice the gnarly trunks of the olive trees, that became our challenge to spur us on as the temperature’s got warmer and we got tired-er, sort of like a grown up version of I-spy as it were.
Some where growing right up against the boundaries, and I couldn’t help but wonder if they’d really been grown like that from the off or if there was some kind of boundary change which caused this. It amused me that they were so close to the railings, and I couldn’t help but wonder if that was for our safety, or theirs.
Others had almost completely hollow trunks, which looked if they could easily hide a human - we didn’t try.
Others had walls build around them.
And more than one combined a number of the things I’ve been pointing out here.
Some even appearing to have grown ‘legs’.
For all the weird and wacky shaped olive trees, there were many more more uniform, and I guess younger trees to see, which made spotting the gnarly ones a real privilege.
Whatever their shape, whatever their size they truly are amazing aren’t they?