N 47.60406°, E 13.02979°
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Saw another glow worm last night just before settling down, always something special.
I was awoken at 1.30am by a half yelp, half bark immediately at the back of the Bongo. It took a second or two to come to and work out what was going on. I laid motionless for a few seconds and the noise moved to the front of the van.
I quietly got up, grabbed my torch, and tried to time the opening of the side door with one of the continuing yelps. I managed to get out with the noise still ongoing and estimated it was about 50 metres away. I flashed my torch to where it was coming from but nothing. No reflection of eyes, no crashing escape, no movement to be seen or heard. It continued a while and then just stopped.
I would guess at deer but I'll never know.
Come getting up time proper I rode the bike course again and practised the worst downhill twice. I also took the fairly unusual step of removing my armpads so now all I have is tribar extensions. This is so I can climb with my hands comfortably on the tops of the bars. I can still get into a full aero position for the few brief times it's possible to be in the tribars. Time will tell if I've called it right. So glad I didn't bring the Boardman.
I decided to head back to Germany to remove the stress so after a 'Hofer' stop I drove through some stunning alpine scenery to the Konigsee area, famous as the retreat for a certain Mr Hitler.
I'm now positioned for a hike up to the actual Eagle's Nest tomorrow morning. The area is stunning with true alpine meadows and men in lederhosen. I went for a bit of a warm up walk to further get used to the altitude and the flowers and insect life is awesome. There are flowers I can't even put into families, let alone identify to genus level.
Highlight was a good sighting of what I think was a bee hawk moth.
It's an amazing area and is proving a reasonable distraction, though I'm always mindful of the impending event.
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