Alpine Adventure (take two)

I mentioned in the first part of this blog post that we had a great guesthouse in a lovely area but there was one further perk.........they gave you a free bus-pass for travel within the local area. This meant that we could go and visit all the little towns around Lake Tegernsee that we had seen from the boat without having to drive.......... hence no parking problems and no worries if I wanted a beer (result!!)
Here are some of the places we went to on the bus, starting with the town of Tegernsee itself:

Beautiful street in Tegernsee old town

Me in Tegernsee

Loved the giant Lego Drindl Girls

View from Tegernsee lakeside cafe

After some lunch at Tegernsee we hopped back on the bus to the little town at Gmund, which was a much quieter town, mainly for those who liked to mess about in boats.

View from beach at Gmund



Yachts at Gmund

So after a leisurely stroll and an ice cream in Gmund it was back in the bus and off to our next stop Bad Wiessee.
Unsurprisingly Bad Wiessee was also a lovely place to visit, it had lots of nice walks along the lake-side, with plenty of outdoor café/bars where you grab a coffee (or beer) and watch the world go by:

Big Tour Boat heading to Bad Weissee

Cheers

A lake-side drink in Bad Wiessee

Up to now I haven't mentioned the wildlife in the Tegernsee area, well here goes:
Being at the side of a lake you would obviously expect to see some sort of wildfowl and the most populous of these was the coot, many with their young cootlings (sorry made that name up):

Coot on underwater post

Coot with Cootlings

 There were also a few Red-crested Pochard dotted about:

Red-crested Pochard

Another Red-crested Pochard

And some Great-crested Grebe, which seemed less shy than those we get back home, and they had cute youngsters on board (literally) as well:

Great-crested Grebe with two Grebelings

The bird we saw most of was the cheeky sparrow, which hung around the lake-side cafes in the hope that you would drop a crumb or two, if not they would come to your plate and help themselves. No pictures of these sparrows or of the many Swifts that zoomed about above our heads.
With regards to mammals we did not see too much. The top species to see in the Bavarian Alps are the Chamois (a goat-antelope) and the Marmot (you either love it or hate it) but we saw none of these. We did see Alpine cattle and we also saw a Muskrat (as featured in Deputy Dawg) which was living in a lodge under the harbour wall in Bad Wiessee:

Muskrat at Bad Wiessee

We had seen these previously in Wisconsin so knew what it was, although the locals seemed a bit bemused by its presence. They are not native to Bavaria but were 'introduced' from North America about 1930/1940. It is a bit like a small beaver without the flat tail.
That is about all from our trip to Southern Bavaria so I will leave you with a couple of sunsets from the little café where we enjoyed a couple of meals in Tegernsee:

Sunset from Tegernsee Cafe

Sunset over Lake Tegernsee

Hope you enjoyed the blog

cheers

TeddyEdward