Walk Sunday 21 October 2018 Santa Fe

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Spain has had some horrific storms in the last week, fortunately, Granada escaped the worst of it, only suffering from heavy rain and cool temperatures which brought snow to the Sierras.
 To avoid walking on muddy footpaths our walk on Sunday was mostly on hard 4X4 tracks. The walk started just outside Santa Fe on the La Malaha road.
It was a circular walk taking in the thermal baths, calling it a bath is stretching the definition of a bath to the limit, a thermal pond is nearer the mark, but even that is doing a disservice to ponds.
 The walk starts off amongst Olive groves and climbs gently up to a picnic area in a pine forest where we stopped for elevensies.  With an eye out for the future, we took a level wheelchair accessible path through the forest to a lookout with distant views over to Moclin.
Will the younger members make a note of this, one day we may require taking out and you will be abe to push our wheelchairs along the track.
 After walking 6 km on good tracks we arrived at the pond which is positioned in a sea of mud amongst Olive trees. It appears the wearing of clothes was optional, and our group were definitely overdressed. One advantage of dressing as nature intended was when you fell in the mud, you just had to jump in the pool and you were clean again, well cleaner.  With none of our group showing any entusiasum for taking a dip we stopped for lunch and then walked back to the cars.

On the way home, we stopped off in La Malaha for refreshments.     

We walked 10 km and climbed 260 metres.

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