Mercantour: Tour du Grand Capelet
Once back to Nice, we didn't stop
hiking anyway, we went to the
Parc National du
Mercantour in the Southern Alps too, for a long day
hiking.
To summarise this day, I would say that the animals were really
numerous and not really afraid of the humans ! We saw around 50
chamois, some of them from as close as like 3m ! We saw some young
ones too, some of them still drinking their mother's milk ! And I
didn't have my camera and my 300mm lens
. At lunch
time, a marmot came to us and stole Bastien's chunk of bread ! Then
ate it proudly in front of us and came back to get the last pieces
under Bastien's knees, touching him ! We also saw an ermine in
summer fur, and a peacefull ibex showing an impressive 50cm-long
pair of horns...
