Oreites Wind Farm
Published 14th of December, 2018
Top of the Forest
When you reach the top of the hills the wind-farm is much more visible.
Surprisingly Green
I was surprised how much green farmland there was up here. I had expected more trees, and some do appear to have been recently planted here.
It isn't all green fields though. This scene (minus the generators) could easily have been taken back on the Army land I grew up on in the UK. Prickly gorse and dense vegetation abound.
Trigpoint!
There's even a trig point up here. Mind you, they are actually a fairly common sight around the countryside of Paphos. The old cartographers were very thorough.
We first visited the wind farm when it was being built, some eight years ago. Before I show you the pictures I took then I want to get close to one of the turbines as it is now.
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