Walk 24th February 2008

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I am sorry that this weeks letter is late, but the weather over here has been so terrible this last week that I have had difficulty planning our next outing. I know back in the old country you have been basking in glorious sunshine with temperatures in the 22s (Fahrenheit), but over here we have had grey skies most days and yesterday we had rain. However the sun has returned and the temperature even reached 20 (centigrade) today. Our walk last Sunday had to be changed because of the weather. The planned walk up Boca de la Pesca is at quite a high altitude and, with the low cloud that was hanging about, the views would have been somewhat limited. So we changed the walk to the lagoon walk from Padul, this is a very easy walk of about 10klm across the basin of the old lagoon to the site of the Roman road and then back via the bird sanctuary, it was at this point that I started to worry, because it was an unplanned walk I had not tested the new return route I wanted to use, thinking that the path required would be easy to spot whilst out walking. How wrong was I, we missed it completely and I had visions of us wondering around the primeval swamp forever, anyway 10 minutes later we were in the bird hide eagerly looking for the birds, and we saw absolutely nothing, but it was a pleasant walk and we enjoyed the tapa back in Talara.

The forecast for this coming Sunday is once again grey skies, so we will stick to the valley, it is no good wasting energy trying to get a good view when you aren't going so see anything when you get there.


The Muchas, Nigúelas circular
Description of walk
Height gained
 200 meters
Length
 13 klm
Estimated time
 4.5 hours
Difficulty
 4
Meet
 The bridge in Murchas 9 am

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