 dcp_2245.jpg(33kb) Just arrived, in my hotel room. Feeling rather depressed, all on my own, in Benidorm, where all the old folks go to warm up before they die. Most people in the hotel were over 60. |
 dcp_2250.jpg(38kb) I was puzzled by this. I think the cliff has been coated in something to stop it crumbling any more. But I may be wrong. |
 dcp_2252a.jpg(54kb) This was called "Dove Park", I believe. Someone had been killed here the night before, apparenty. The doves looked nice, though. |
 dcp_2257.jpg(35kb) A cat, and some generically mediterranean blue/white tiling. |
 dcp_2260.jpg(26kb) A good view of Benidorm from up here. |
 dcp_2261.jpg(34kb) Some brass doors, or doors covered in gold leaf or something. |
 dcp_2262.jpg(29kb) These sculptures along the beach had clothsinfront (you can just see one here) to throw money on. They were very skillfully done, I felt. |
 dcp_2277.jpg(42kb) Some fishermen, and no, I can't remember why I took this. |
 dcp_2281.jpg(30kb) This is a boat that I went on a cruise with, to a market town further along the coast. It is the one that I took the stereogram of the cave from. |
 dcp_2287.jpg(24kb) On this trip, though, I was on another boat, going to Peacock Island, to see the peacocks. This is a view back to the beach. |
 dcp_2288.jpg(33kb) Peacock island, close up. |
 dcp_2289.jpg(35kb) We were to go on this, and see some fish! Yay! |
 dcp_2291.jpg(25kb) These are the fish. |
 dcp_2292.jpg(30kb) More fish. |
 dcp_2300.jpg(22kb) The boy of a guy I got chatting to. |
 dcp_2304.jpg(18kb) You guessed it, more fish. |
 dcp_2308.jpg(64kb) The Peacock island Peacocks. |
 dcp_2309.jpg(51kb) Looking a bit raggy around the edges, but still relatively splendid. |
 dcp_2326.jpg(33kb) The boat comes back, bringing another load of tourists. |
 dcp_2332.jpg(32kb) Most of the island was marked out as a nature reserve. Those bits we could reach were scraggy and covered in tough shrubbery and cactuses. Those bits we couldn't, were much the same, but with more bushes. |
 dcp_2333.jpg(45kb) Another peacock. |
 dcp_2334.jpg(52kb) The peacocks are far less flamboyant when you realise that they were all in a pen, because it was the "wrong time of year" to let them out, apparently. |
 dcp_2336.jpg(27kb) Farewell to the island. It looks sall, but I remember it seemed to take me quarter of an hour or so to reach the top. |
 dcp_2340.jpg(24kb) The nearby headland juts similarly: very strange, I felt, for it to be pointing upwards, out to sea. Was there once a huge mountain ahead of it, now eroded? Or has it risen up out of the sea as the underlying geology twisted? |
 dcp_2341.jpg(39kb) Fishermen tending their nets. |
 dcp_2347.jpg(30kb) This is the ballroom of the hotel, showing the average age of the clientelle. |
 dcp_2350.jpg(46kb) Doves in Dove Park. Nice place to walk, though apparently someone was gunned down there the day before. |
 dcp_2351.jpg(46kb) More doves. Oooh, pretty. |
 dcp_2352.jpg(42kb) Doves on the beach, too. Beats pigeons and seagulls, I guess. |
 dcp_2360.jpg(36kb) Some houses, some geology. From here, you get a feeling that the works of man are impermanent and irrelevant compared to geological stuff. |
 dcp_2361.jpg(24kb) This was a flamingo pond cum salt marsh. I took this while I was on a trip to see an astonishingly boring and modern market town. You can see this place behind the seagull at the top of the hill, too. |
 dcp_2364.jpg(45kb) A flamingo. Note the lack of pink. |
 dcp_2367.jpg(34kb) The hill I climbed had steep cliffs all around, and the path had a short tunnel to get up it. Interestingly, it had solar powered lights in it, which I thought was a grand idea: the panel was outside. |
 dcp_2375.jpg(53kb) This seagull let me get rather close while photographing him. Which was cool. |
 dcp_2376.jpg(64kb) Halfway up the hill, the water looks very far down, and very clear. Being as it's only a mono photo, rather than stereo, you can't get any impression of the depth and clarity of the water from this, but the darkness and lightness are sand and seaweed at the bottom. |
 dcp_2383.jpg(51kb) At the top of the hill, looking down - you can see the flamingo saltmarsh below, as well as the "quaint market town" I'd been sold a ticket to. |
 dcp_2386.jpg(33kb) The view from the top of the hill was superb. I could have stayed there all day, but unfortunately, my boat was leaving shortly, and it was a long way down. |
 dcp_2393.jpg(49kb) The boat I came in on, and would return on: and the hill I'd just climbed. |