Sailor’s Warning

Kate Pullen
January 5, 2023
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We see quite a lot of pink skies in the morning, but thankfully they don’t seem to the bearers of bad weather, but are quite pretty to look at. They change so quickly though, by the time I’ve gone to get my camera, the pink has gone!

A Windy Mirador

We went to another mirador just outside Burela. We should have paid heed to the weather forecast, however, as it was extremely windy. We tried to find somewhere to eat lunch, but could only eat single handed as we needed to stop the food from blowing away!

It was very impressive, however, with views in every direction.

If you look closely, the red buildings on the left are the aluminium factory at San Cibrao. The photo is blurry I think because the wind was blowing me and also because the wind was blowing the trees.

Dolos

We had to go to San Cibrao so went to the beach we had gone to early in the morning by the aluminium plant. We are the other side of the alumunium factory which we could see from the mirador above. I think we are bear the bit that juts out in the pic above.

The sea walls are man made and are these big concrete dolos which appear to be thrown into the sea – but I imagine there was much more precision than that!

The sea walls at either side of this port entrance are made from these concrete dolos

Note to self – must try not to get my shadow in photos – but at least it proves I was there ?

Another picnic…?? I’m thinking about starting a travel blog specifically about places to have picnics in this area and things to do around those places. I’m not certain yet as it will depend on whether I think I can get a blog out of it and what the potential size of readership could be, but given we haven’t yet travelled much more than 15 km radius from the house, I think there could be enough material particularly if we started going further afield!

Driftwood

We walked along the beach and noticed two things. First the sand was like glitter – this photo just doesn’t show it, but it was absolutely like walking on glitter, when we got home I noticed how sparkly my boots were! I can see a lot of mica in the sand, so I guess it’s that catching the sun.

The other thing was this big bit of driftwood which caught Ian’s eye and which came home with us.

Early Morning Beach Walk

Having discovered that Rueta beach is so much bigger at low tide, we’ve been trying to head down there around low tide time, which has been early in the morning this week. Daisy rather enjoys her early morning runs on the beach.

This is looking back at the railway bridge towards the river.

The jacket Ian is wearing is one we got from when we lived in Cumbria – and hasn’t been worn in the last 17 years. I have one too, and thankfully we didn’t throw them out as they have big pockets and are hugely useful for carrying our treasures! We have walking sticks too, which Emma and Ed bought us when we first moved to Cumbria (you can just see Ian has one in his right hand) – and these too have become amazingly useful for prodding bits on the beach to see if they are treasures or not (more often not!).

Looking back to the beach. We can’t see our house from the beach, however the electric pole about in the middle of the pic is the one we saw the men dangling from the other week.

Waves

There were a lot of strong waves on a beach just outside Burela. I tried to take photos, but the sea went calm every time I tried. It was very impressive, though. A surfer came out of the sea when we arrived – given the strength of the waves as they hit the rocks, I am guessing (hoping) he knew what he was doing!