…well, members of a closely-related species…which is also sometimes seen on volcanoes, thousands of metres above sea level.
In the final morning hour of 30 September 2023 the Sicilian air was warm… generally.
However, we were a little more than 2,900 metres (9, 500 feet) above sea level.
Most of the way up Mt Etna’s southern side, Sicily’s air was very much cooler, rather more moist, and a great deal less clear.
This post’s photos were taken just a few minutes after a monstrous bus had brought us up there.
I was wondering whether we were going to see only a very little bit of upper Etna.
Happily, the “impenetrable” mists soon proved not “immovable”.
Accordingly, you are not now looking at this series’ final chapter.