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[00:01:13] This time, nature and adventure, we came to a place that has
[00:01:17] recently become very dear to our show, "Nature
[00:01:20] and Adventure", namely the Natural Park, Grădiștea Muncelului,
[00:01:24] Ciocolovinac. We've been around here a lot lately and discovered some
[00:01:27] fantastic things. Look, I've worked 20 years on this show and didn't
[00:01:31] know much about the park. We came in autumn at the
[00:01:35] end of September,
[00:01:37] for an event that marks not only this area but
[00:01:41] all the Carpathians of Romania, namely the period in
[00:01:44] which the deer
[00:01:47] of the Carpathians sing
[00:01:50] their love, that is, when they are rutting. We
[00:01:54] left the car at the end of the road, we'll meet
[00:01:57] the boys further up.
[00:02:00] Before we start climbing, to get to the heart of the matter
[00:02:03] and look for the deer, we stopped somewhere down in the valley, because here
[00:02:07] there are the Crivadia Gorges, which we have never
[00:02:11] visited on this show, and in which
[00:02:15] we hope by visiting them to
[00:02:18] discover the presence of otters. I'll meet the boys from
[00:02:21] the park later on.
[00:02:24] târziu.
[00:02:28] Our friends are waiting by the river, with them
[00:02:31] we will explore the gorges, the truth
[00:02:35] is that I can't wait to see something I've heard about
[00:02:38] many times, but have never seen.
[00:02:54] Good morning, gentlemen, good morning, welcome
[00:02:57] back, welcome. The boys,
[00:03:05] each specialized in
[00:03:07] what he does, Alin, the park director,
[00:03:11] Cristi the Ranger, Bogdan, a fauna specialist. What
[00:03:15] are we doing? Yes, this is my sector,
[00:03:18] we rounded and we go on the Crivadia
[00:03:22] Gorges, on the Crivadia river, to retrieve a
[00:03:25] camera where we hope to have
[00:03:28] images. of the otter in a place that
[00:03:32] we rangers have called the otter's dwelling, the otter's dwelling, this
[00:03:35] practically means that Crivadia, although small
[00:03:39] and quite anthropized, this means it has
[00:03:42] fish, because the otter, if it has nothing to eat, yes, it has
[00:03:45] fish, definitely, being called the Crivadia Gorges,
[00:03:49] I assume that at some point it will be impossible to advance
[00:03:53] on the banks, we will have to walk through the water, yes, a few
[00:03:57] small canyons are formed, very beautiful, we walk approximately
[00:04:00] 500 meters through water upstream, upstream, of course,
[00:04:03] and in some places the water
[00:04:06] creates vortices, it is rocky
[00:04:09] and in the area, a very beautiful area, luckily I was informed early and I
[00:04:13] came equipped with boots, otherwise I would not have passed, no.
[00:04:16] treceam, nu.
[00:04:34] On our previous visit, we explored the Bănița
[00:04:38] Gorges, located somewhere else here in the area, 7-8 km away,
[00:04:41] also very spectacular, and there we found traces of
[00:04:45] otters, but we haven't explored the Crivadia Gorges and I'm interested
[00:04:49] in the presence of otters.
[00:04:50] Look,
[00:04:53] we're just passing under
[00:04:56] the bridge, over this bridge is the national road.
[00:05:08] under all this traffic, including heavy traffic, there is such
[00:05:11] a wilderness, look, we are 25 meters below,
[00:05:15] 30 meters, yes, and nearby, at the end of the viaduct on the right,
[00:05:18] you know there is the Crivadia Tower, yes, the Crivadia Tower with the fortress, yes, yes,
[00:05:22] spectacular, practically here we enter the gorge, don't we? Yes,
[00:05:26] it's the main entrance to the gorges from downstream, you can
[00:05:29] also enter upstream through the gorge but much further and it's the first small
[00:05:33] canyon of the first narrowing, in other
[00:05:36] words.
[00:05:42] stay, let's make a
[00:05:46] dam,
[00:05:49] look at what a wonder of wild nature you pass
[00:05:52] through, we come on the national road, if you don't
[00:05:55] know, it's not
[00:05:57] there,
[00:06:02] cracked.
[00:06:12] "Where did you put the camera? We
[00:06:16] have about 300 meters until
[00:06:19] you see a beautiful entrance,
[00:06:21] you put them in places where you find more traces,
[00:06:25] look, look, look, the sculpin
[00:06:29] and how it goes through the water, I saw it, I saw it, I saw it, I
[00:06:32] saw it, one sculpin,
[00:06:35] for sure we will see too many sculpins because if there is an otter
[00:06:38] here." it persecutes them,
[00:06:44] that is, more precisely, it eats them. I saw it.
[00:06:46] mănâncă, am văzut o,
[00:07:07] Very spectacular, very a huge
[00:07:11] overhang.
[00:07:13] Massive, a huge monolithic block overhanging
[00:07:17] and below all limestone, yes, red, maybe
[00:07:21] it doesn't even come out very clearly in the footage, you have to come and
[00:07:25] visit the Crivadia Gorges to realize how monumental
[00:07:28] they are, they seem small but very spectacular,
[00:07:31] look
[00:07:35] here on the side we have a dogwood tree
[00:07:39] twice valuable, once for its wood. It is very valuable, it makes
[00:07:43] some very good, very
[00:07:46] resistant clubs from it, and two due to its fruit, which
[00:07:49] contains very many
[00:07:52] vitamins. From here, Cristi, we follow the water's edge? Yes, to the right
[00:07:55] begins the second canyon of the
[00:07:58] gorges.
[00:08:01] And to your left here is a very beautiful waterfall,
[00:08:04] called the Rainbow Waterfall,
[00:08:07] we'll visit it.
[00:08:23] here is one of the paradoxes of the modern
[00:08:26] world: we have here some otter
[00:08:30] jelly, it is one of the basic indicators of
[00:08:33] the otter's presence because it cannot be confused
[00:08:36] with anything else. Beside it, look, a
[00:08:39] bag. The bag and textiles found on the stream
[00:08:43] indicate that somewhere higher up
[00:08:46] we have human settlement. Are there villages?
[00:08:49] Unfortunately yes, around the Crivadia
[00:08:52] Gorges there are houses, the village
[00:08:55] of Bănița with the commune of Bănița, in fact, with several villages,
[00:08:58] including the hamlet of Crivadia.
[00:09:02] And upstream they deposit, you clean up
[00:09:06] all the time anyway, right? Yesterday I went and cleaned up the area,
[00:09:10] me.
[00:09:18] I come especially in spring and when it rains, I also come, and
[00:09:22] yesterday when you were here, there was no sign of otter here,
[00:09:25] because I saw the other signs
[00:09:28] in front, I understood, so this wasn't there, it means it's fresh, it means
[00:09:32] we should find tracks too.
[00:09:35] We walk on the sand now, returning to what I said
[00:09:38] earlier, ultimately the rural population,
[00:09:41] less ecologically educated, that's
[00:09:45] it, should think very carefully that through what
[00:09:48] they throw away, these wonders of nature that we still have,
[00:09:52] somewhat wild,
[00:09:54] they cause damage that in some cases can be irreparable.
[00:10:11] As I expected, on the sand bed
[00:10:15] and the undoubted presence of
[00:10:18] the otter, namely the tracks and droppings are
[00:10:22] undeniable, you can see them here very clearly. The front
[00:10:26] paws, these
[00:10:28] two. This means that you might have caught something on your camera at the end.
[00:11:15] But isn't that a fox? No, who said it was a
[00:11:18] fox?
[00:11:21] Here's actually a trail of these are otter tracks, you can see
[00:11:25] the otter came this way, yes, but listen, we're
[00:11:29] approaching the place, we're about 100 meters from here, it's a small
[00:11:32] colony, an otter family there, they are very shy
[00:11:36] and they have enough space there to shelter, several
[00:11:39] entrances, sand, a sandy beach they
[00:11:42] like, here in the back,
[00:11:46] where you see that simple cave, we had
[00:11:49] another camera placed there, also for the otter, but there we caught
[00:11:53] a bat, a small bat. with a horseshoe and
[00:11:57] a marten, a marten, yes, again,
[00:12:00] classic here, specific to the area, let's go this
[00:12:04] way,
[00:12:05] like this.
[00:12:10] Let's go.
[00:12:13] There, in the area where Bogdan is, yes, there, where Bogdan is, in that area,
[00:12:17] that's where the most traffic is
[00:12:21] from the otters, from their dwellings to the
[00:12:23] water. In this area the camera is
[00:12:26] mounted, I can still see it, look
[00:12:29] Dane, here are, here is the boulevard,
[00:12:33] so to speak, the otter boulevard, it's already dark here, we had
[00:12:37] to turn on our headlamps, but in
[00:12:40] return here we truly have a boulevard, as Cristi calls it, the
[00:12:44] otter boulevard, you can see very clearly, I'll turn the light from one
[00:12:46] side
[00:12:49] to create shadows, so I can also see the places where Bogdan says
[00:12:53] they dragged their tail, you can indeed see the dragged tail, the otter has a
[00:12:56] very thick, powerful,
[00:13:00] fleshy tail, positioned very low, and when it walks, it drags it behind it,
[00:13:03] only when it, when it runs, it
[00:13:06] lifts it.
[00:13:08] Look, a dragging spot here, a dragging spot there, even two dragging
[00:13:11] spots, yes.
[00:13:15] Well, I'm going to get the camera and we'll pick it up and
[00:13:19] see if it caught anything. I'd be surprised if it didn't, with how many otter tracks
[00:13:23] there are.
[00:13:26] Yes, it must be said, let me turn off my headlamp, it must be said that the otter
[00:13:30] is a very shy animal compared to humans, almost like
[00:13:34] the lynx, not quite like the lynx, but almost like the lynx, that's why it is rarely seen,
[00:13:38] and during the period when these gorges are visited, i.e. summer, when people are present,
[00:13:42] you never see it, it retreats somewhere upstream,
[00:13:45] it comes down when the flow of tourists ceases, it comes down and
[00:13:49] visits these
[00:13:50] places too.
[00:13:54] Look at her. Look at her, look at
[00:13:57] Miss Otter, I've only seen her tail so far,
[00:14:00] but there are more recordings here on the camera, look
[00:14:03] at her, look at her, look
[00:14:06] at her, look at her walking,
[00:14:10] well, no better proof, well we were sure
[00:14:13] after the tracks that we would find the otter, but look at her, she
[00:14:16] appears again, she walks again, disappears behind a
[00:14:20] rock, appears again, this is an area where
[00:14:23] she is... either forced to pass towards the feeding
[00:14:26] grounds, or she actually lives
[00:14:29] somewhere nearby, but I doubt she lives nearby,
[00:14:33] but she is forced to pass through here, look at her, you can see it even
[00:14:37] better here, look at that tail, this
[00:14:40] is actually, this is also her characteristic, many people
[00:14:44] confuse them with beavers, but
[00:14:48] the beaver has a spade-like tail, the otter has this
[00:14:51] fusiform and pointed tail.
[00:14:55] Very cuddly animals, but quite
[00:14:59] destructive in areas where there are fish farms, especially,
[00:15:01] a curious animal, an extremely powerful researcher, it fights with
[00:15:05] dogs to the death, that's
[00:15:08] why, for example, the fox doesn't bother with it.
[00:15:12] pildă vulpea.
[00:15:32] The gorges continue, you know, so we only go up to here, the gorges continue with what's
[00:15:36] above, the gorges are still very beautiful,
[00:15:39] wild, they narrow, I understand, they narrow, they
[00:15:43] widen, the water reaches whirlpools, so it's not
[00:15:46] just in the period, and there are
[00:15:49] bigger whirlpools than
[00:15:51] before.
[00:16:01] here onwards.
[00:16:07] Yes, I didn't suspect it, I didn't suspect
[00:16:10] its existence in the Crivadia gorges, few
[00:16:13] people, I've talked about it
[00:16:16] before, very beautiful, why do they call
[00:16:19] it rainbow when it has more water volume than it does now, I
[00:16:23] took some more photos, the water comes like a
[00:16:26] curtain to our right, as you can see, and
[00:16:29] the sun's rays create mist, if the
[00:16:33] sun shines here, that's how the rainbow is seen, and that's why
[00:16:36] they call it that.
[00:17:17] We continue on a spectacular route along the water's edge, as you
[00:17:21] can see, traversing the Crivadia Gorges can only be done through
[00:17:25] the water with high rubber boots, but even
[00:17:29] these are not enough in certain
[00:17:31] sections.
[00:17:46] Since there are no crossing options on the slopes and the water reaches
[00:17:50] our waist, we decide to turn
[00:17:52] back.
[00:17:59] We finished our incursion into the Crivadia Gorges, short
[00:18:03] but very relevant, we continue
[00:18:05] our journey. Believe me, these are absolutely
[00:18:09] splendid places, even the road
[00:18:11] is wonderful. From the Crivadia Gorges, we continue
[00:18:15] our route towards the heart of the Grădiștea Muncelului Cioclovina Natural
[00:18:18] Park for the second stage of the journey, where we intend
[00:18:22] to observe the deer during
[00:18:23] rutting.
[00:18:30] I messed up a bit, I don't like it.
[00:18:33] Yes, look, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
[00:18:37] Whoa, what I
[00:18:39] expected, this autumn has been
[00:18:42] exceptionally rich in mushrooms, I thought that in this
[00:18:45] area it
[00:18:48] was very possible to find some, and I stopped here because I see birch trees and
[00:18:52] I see some, I see some mushrooms that are
[00:18:55] very visible there, it
[00:18:59] is possible that they are the famous birch bolete, I can't
[00:19:03] tell from here, but I'll go there, if
[00:19:05] it's true and they are birch boletes, God
[00:19:09] put his hand on my head because that means tonight we'll eat an exceptional
[00:19:12] mushroom dish, let's see,
[00:19:14] I'll
[00:19:18] pick them in my hat because I don't have anything else, if I
[00:19:21] find more, I'll look
[00:19:22] for them.
[00:19:28] We are not lucky this time, because I am convinced that we will find
[00:19:32] mushrooms.
[00:19:35] I thought it was a birch bolete because the birch bolete...
[00:19:52] unfortunately poisonous, not so much poisonous as with hallucinogenic effects, under no
[00:19:56] circumstances should it be eaten,
[00:19:59] yes, we're going because the boys are waiting for us, they
[00:20:03] certainly realized we weren't coming and stopped,
[00:20:06] but we'll have stops because this road
[00:20:10] is wonderful,
[00:20:13] perhaps in the top
[00:20:15] 3
[00:20:18] roads in Romania, I saw mushrooms again, but I'm afraid they're again fly agarics, but I can't stop
[00:20:21] myself from seeing what they are.
[00:20:24] This time I got it right, look at the birch
[00:20:28] bolete, I told you it is reddish, we
[00:20:31] see it, the bolete, we see the
[00:20:34] spongy part, the stem, the trunk.
[00:20:37] Compact, well formed, during this time of
[00:20:41] year they are also very healthy because it's cold at night, they
[00:20:44] don't get worms, this will be set aside and
[00:20:48] will certainly be consumed. I'll find more, I have
[00:20:52] to mention one thing and I can't leave before I say it,
[00:20:55] don't follow my example when you go mushroom picking, what you see on my
[00:20:59] TV is one thing, when you go mushroom picking, take your guide
[00:21:03] with you, not what you remembered from the show, let it be
[00:21:06] clear. Well, this is a road we've traveled
[00:21:10] before, but
[00:21:12] in spring,
[00:21:14] in spring we traveled it again, we came here once to look for
[00:21:18] the beautiful lynx. Very beautiful, I can't resist. Now, in the
[00:21:22] meantime, autumn has come,
[00:21:24] we are in the last part of September,
[00:21:27] I found another treasure,
[00:21:31] the mushroom called "deer's
[00:21:34] foot", one of
[00:21:36] the culinary wonders that
[00:21:40] can be found in Romania in the field, an exceptional
[00:21:43] mushroom, not picked by many because in certain areas of
[00:21:45] the country it is believed to be poisonous. It is not poisonous, it
[00:21:49] indeed resembles a poisonous species, or more precisely a hallucinogenic one, amanita
[00:21:53] pantherina, but this is not pantherina, it is the deer's foot, especially
[00:21:57] cooked in the form of schnitzel, you would swear
[00:21:59] you are eating chicken schnitzel.
[00:22:03] pui.
[00:22:07] Look at the fofolog, this
[00:22:10] is Boletus edulis and I'm sure I'll find more, tonight we'll eat
[00:22:13] mushrooms.
[00:22:31] In the next episode, we continue the adventure in the Grădiștea
[00:22:34] Muncelului Cioclovina Natural Park in search of the rutting
[00:22:37] deer, but that's after a well-deserved rustic meal
[00:22:41] in the shelter of the sheepfold in Copăcioș. We put
[00:22:44] the mushrooms
[00:22:46] on top and it will be a delicious meal.