This is the hill directly behind the campsite. It doesn’t look much as hills go, but it’s become the campsite initiation test and you can expect to be frequently challenged with, “Have you been up the hill yet”. We hadn’t, so decided it was time to join the club.
Well, let me tell you, it’s steeper than it looks, and it took one hour and ten minutes of puffing and panting. That’s the view of the campsite from the top, and the bay beyond. The white surfaces that look like concrete are in fact plastic tomato greenhouses and are visible over large areas from any elevated point in this part of Spain. We don’t know what happens to the produce because we haven’t seen any plastic tomatoes on sale locally.
This photo is also from the top of the hill and is looking down on the nearest village, Isla Plana. The island you can see is the “Isla” part of the name. It contains a good variety of shops including a quirky department store cum Aladdin’s Cave called Pepelino’s. Here you can buy anything from a tube of beads to a large anchor.
At the top we noticed many swallowtail butterflies. The picture shows the only one that stayed still long enough to get snapped.
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