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18th February 2017 Hiking - Walking: Playas La Llana Wind Direction: Wind Stength: Surf / Sea State: Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: sunny Max Speed: Distance Covered: Saturday 18th February – travel then walk **** Playas La Llana – sunny Good night on our road side overnight spot in Alicante apart from when the bin men came to empty the bins at three in the morning!!! Woke to blue skies and a flat calm Mediterranean, laid in bed reading while watching joggers run around the turning circle. Mag took a coffee and went to sit on the rocks on the sea shore and read her book in the sun. While we ate our breakfast 5 racing stand up paddle boards whizzed past. We left and followed the good N332 down the coast, it was actually deserted in-between the high-rise holiday resorts and we lost count of the number of Lidl’s at least six. We retuned the radio and sadly found an English radio station for ‘Brits Abroad’ called Spectrum FM. They are even advertising DFS furniture show rooms which we actually passed with all the shop signs in full English. They also had an advert for an all-day breakfast for 3.95 Euro. Football results followed the English news with non-league Lincoln reaching the quarter finals of the FA cup, the first time that’s happened for a 100 years! We were looking for a flat-water windsurfing spot in the huge inland sea called Mar Menor near Cartagena as recommended by my new Belgian friend. There is a great picture of it in the European windsurf guide and thought it would be easy to find, just head to Lo Pagan and there should be a road out into the lagoon with great sailing to be had. Mag directed us to Lo Pagan which was a lovely long beach side road with loads of jetty’s out and loads of moored boats in the flat water. We even passed an old van with windsurfers on. Things were looking good when we came to a roundabout taking you out to a Natural Reserve, it was a cyclists/ walker’s paradise with paths everywhere leading through etangs and salt working full of birds as we spotted Avocets and Black Winged Stilts but no sign of the windsurfing spot:( In fact we ended up back on the Med at a marina with a nice carpark popular with fishermen. We were hungry and should have had lunch but we walked over to the notice board for the Playas La Llana, it was a long beach with the Med on one side and the Mar Menor on the over, the beach goes for miles to the other side of the lagoon but you can’t walk the complete length because the sea has broken into the lagoon. I just wanted to walk a little way along the beach to see if we could see the windsurfing spit so headed off at about 1.15 and made it back to the van at 3.35 after walking about 6 miles!!! It was busy with walkers and bikers on the nice solid sand, the first section was very weedy but that soon cleared as we walked towards some big apartments in the distance. At every slight turn in the beach we thought we were there but it just went on and on! There were small dunes then salt workings to the right and we saw an old windmill in the distance, the Molino De La Caketera and turned towards it. All the salt beds were fenced off so we couldn’t get to it directly. There were several people on a path over that way so we walked along the side of the workings to a well-made path which we thought took as back to the van. We passed flamingos, a Spoonbill feeding madly, more Stilts and a Godwit before reaching the lovely white mill and the way back to the van was fenced off so we had to return the way we came! Back at the beach we turned right and made it to the rocks at the end of the beach before the long walk back to the van with the breeze filling in, luckily a tail wind:) Knackered we had a well-deserved late lunch before having one last look for the windsurfing spot. We got as far as the airport at Los Alcazares with no luck so returned to Lo Pagan and stopped by the old van with the windsurfers on to ask him where the secret spot was? It was a foreign plate but the old boy turned out to be English and had been here for 20 years and didn’t know where that picture was taken??? We had a long chat and I have a new best friend as we are supposed to be having a beer tomorrow after sailing:) and he is going to give me the password to his Columbian girlfriend’s bar wi-fi!!! We returned to the port and found a nice little carpark by the beach with 5 other campervans at Playas De La Torre Derribaba, good view shame about the mozzies :( but once we shut the door they were no problem. After a cuppa and my Apple puff we walked to see the sunset over the mountains/lagoon before tucking into Egg fried rice special, fingers crossed Sunday brings some wind, the Levante is supposed to be coming:) Photo Gallery Here |
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