Bol Nuevo

Bol Nuevo is a seaside village 12 miles from our campsite. It means new bowl or pool, but that isn’t anything visible today. What we can see to start with is an unusual rock formation: wind-carved sandstone. The camper in the huge car park gives a good idea of scale.

The huge car park services a huge beach opposite, of fine sand.

But we’ve come for a walk, and head off along the cost using a dirt road. This is the view along the coast before we drop down to sea level. Notice the wooden gazebo indicating one of the few, exclusive homes before we reach the wilderness.

The sea path is backed by multi coloured rocks indicating various minerals of which iron ore was mined in the 18^th and 19^th century. 

No motor vehicles are now allowed on the road but even in our time in previous years it was used by cars. There are several cuttings like the one below that show it was once an important highway for it to have been worth  blasting away the rock. Adam and Natalie, who have joined us for a week, give an idea of how much was removed.

There are some pretty bays along the way, but beware – some are dedicated nudist beaches. It is an interesting speculation, when Spain had very strict  requirements to wear Covid masks at all times, to imagine the nudists all wearing masks and nothing else!

We reach the small dilapidated jetty from which the iron ore was shipped and return along a smaller coastal path. The iron ore colour in the rocks behind Adam is really strong in this next photo.

We backtrack along the dirt road we started along, passing pretty deserted bays and inlets. Some 20 years ago a Disney World was proposed along this part of the coast, and a motorway built in anticipation (now hardly used), but the plan never progressed. Thank goodness, we say, as the area would have been changed out of all recognition, but perhaps businesses and local employment would have a welcomed it.