Ian found a great new picnic spot! It’s a bench just down the road from an old monestary – which is also the site of an old castro. I think I am familiar enough now with the old stone-age castros that I could have guessed that there would have been one here. The castros were built on sticky out bits of land which I imagine were easy to defend.
The footings of the castro are at the end of the land here, and stone building is the old monestry.
On the way back we saw a ship coming into the aluminium works port. It was a huge ship, probably three times the size of the ships we normally see.
What was interesting was watching the tugs manourver the ship-
Here there is a tug literally pushing the front end of the ship around. The tug on the right later went to join it and another tug was at the other end. I think they were then pushing the ship parallel into the mooring. It was very interesting to see and not something I’d really thought about before – I guess with big ships like this they really can’t manoeuvre and are reliant on help!