Risco, Rabacal, Madeira.

A lovely walk today starting from the beautiful Paul da Serra on the central mountains of Madeira today. The walk began in the parking area above Rabacal today, it's a great car park for starting many wonderful walks.  We walked down to the Risco waterfall in the morning sun and picniced at the waterfalls feeding the little chaffinches and enjoying the wonderful views. The walk was partly on a track and partly on the 25 fontes levada. There is a minibus that takes people to Rabacal, avoiding the up and down hill parts of the walk, but if you do that you miss the sunshine and views too. Lots of lizards and buzzards about and the upper slopes were covered in yellow gorse.