There was a lot of mist coming down the mountains to the lakes. This was my first time on Pescatori, it was cool to get to go to the church on the Island, the one serious sight. As far as I could tell, these busts on the altar were of popes and bishops.
The area around Lago Maggiore is very German influenced. They even have these serious recycling receptacles!
We only spent a half hour or so on the island. It's tiny, that was enough time to walk around it and get the ferry over to Isola Madre. Madre is famous for its gardens. Despite it being fall, there were lots of things in late blooming glory.
These air plants caught my eye as soon as we entered the gardens.
The water lilies were just incredible. I couldn't believe how may lilies were going in October. A few different colors were represented, pink, white, yellow, purple, and besides the open blossoms a lot of the plants had buds sticking out of the water.
We did the full walking tour of the island. You can see the wet look from the rain. Here's the guys looking out at Pallanza.
And of course we saw lots of the fancy birds. Two kinds of pheasants, more peacocks, the caged parakeets and love birds, and some fancy chickens.
After Isola Madre, we made our long way home.
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