Walk Sunday 25th March 2018 Orgiva acequia







This week  should have been our big end of the month walk but the weather forecast was for showers and a cold northerly wind. Instead we chose a wind cheating, shower dodging, short walk from Orgiva.
 The weather in Beznar was as predicted, we were only a few minutes away from more rain and there was a cool northerly breeze. A breeze has now been reclassified as a wind up to 50 kmph
 By the time we got to Orgiva things had improved a little. The temperature was a few degrees higher, the rain looked to be about 30 minutes away and the wind had dissipated.
 The walks starts off by heading downhill to the river, we had a couple of streams to cross that we have not seen before and the Rio Guadalfeo/Trevelez/ Cadiar, the river has so many names around here it’s impossible to work out what it is actually called, was in full spate. It started to rain just before we arrived at our usual breakfast stop in Los Augustines. It no longer looked inviting so breakfast was cancelled and we decided to press on until lunch some 30 minutes away.
 The way back is alongside an acequia, normally it’s a good dry path but after all the rain it was quite slippy in places. It was usually the guy who was at the front who discovered the slippy bit and after taking a tumble would stand up with brown muddy trousers. He would be replaced by the next guy in line, but after a few minutes  he too would fall by the wayside.
Back in Orgiva we looked for a bar but nothing was open. This is the third time we have tried to get a drink in Orgiva only to find everything shut. Is it us they are objecting to? In the end we found a bar in Lanjaron that was happy to take our money.  

 We walked 12.4 km and climbed 238 metres.

 

Comments

Kees said…
It was a great walk. Thank you, Stuart!

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