| Hiking
in Hondarribia - Day Trip |
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Here's a shot of Hondarribia, a town about
45 minutes by bus outside of Spain. There's a trail that goes from this
coastal town back to San Sebastian, but it takes a good 10 hours and so
we're hoping to go camping along it if we can find a tent (I left mine
back in the US over the holidays, a bad idea in hindsight). On this day
we just hiked some of the trail to see what it was like. |
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This is an example of the trail. Rarely
used, with views to the sea almost always. We are definitely coming back
here to hike the whole trail. |
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Here's the problem that all of northern
Spain is dealing with right now. Beautiful little ocean coves, covered
with blotches of oil from the oil tanker that sank off of the Spanish
coast in November 2002. It's terrible. We've put our names in to help,
but so far they haven't called us, we don't know why not. |
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Another shot of the cove, where you can
also see several workers in white uniforms cleaning up the cove. This
cove was pretty secluded, what they do is drive in with boats, drop the
workers off, then come back and pick them up (with their bags and buckets
of clumped oil) when they are done. The oil isn't a liquid but more like
a fairly-solidified goo, imagine trying to clean up millions of tons of
this off all these types of rocks. |
| Hiking
from San Sebastian to Pasajes - Day Trip |
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Yet another great trail with views like
this all the way. |
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Cool little windblown rock formation, with
Jules on top of it. |
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A spooky tunnel we had to go through to
get to the other side of a hill. |
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A shot looking down to the water, this
is one of my favorite photos in this group, I like the contrast of the
grass and the water. |
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Jules with a ocenside cliff behind her. |
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This lighthouse marks the end of the trail,
pretty impressive cliff that it sits on top off. |