A View to Gibraltar

October 29, 2009

A few trips ago we got lost driving off the motorway headed towards Gibraltar. Which was fortunate because we ended up on an unspoiled beach, abutting a nature reserve and with few buildings to be seen, save for the largely new town of Sotogrande shimmering white in the distance.



So hardly an hour after leaving Malaga we're back again sitting on the beach in the sun, looking down to the south where the rock of Gibraltar rises stark and sharply out of the sea.

There have been a few changes - the small hut from which you can look out at the birds nesting in the reeds in the nature reserve is still there, but locked.

The beach has been built up to correct the erosion that was threatening to sweep away a line of white, two-storey terraced houses, and a long walkway alongside the reserve parallel to the beach has been dismantled, sadly. On the other hand this means there is an unimpeded view across the marshlands of the nature reserve, as I show here in this photo:




We are surprised again at how few people seem to come to spend time on what is one of the few largely unspoiled stretches of coastline on the Costa del Sol.

My wife swam, the sea was warm and I took a few classy photos and lots of trashy snaps. A woman sunbathed topless nearby, a small family strolled and played further away down the beach, and we sat eating our sandwiches as the sun began to set, looking at Gibraltar. The sky began to turn pink and blue as evening came, and the coastline and hills of Morocco began to form in the faint distance as we watched. Near heaven.




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