Love this place

After a bbq lunch and several hours sunbathing in the back yard, we felt we should say hello to the sea, as we do every day. So we had a walk along the shore and a sundowner or two on the Playa Grande Hotel terrace - blimey, a new girl served us and she poured a 10er - normal round here is a 7er. For those of you who don't know Spain, that's the number of seconds they spend pouring.

Here is the sundown.

The structure in the foreground is a Mazarron-style windbrake, installed at the behest of our esteemed mayor, Snr Blaya Blaya. He has been told, by the equally esteemed Minister of the Environment for our Autonomous Region of Murcia, to pull it down. He resists. His reason? This is an all-year-round beach. You can get untoward breezes, either from the north of Europe or from Africa. Whatever the direction, people need protection from them when they want to bask.

Anyway, on to the 'snorts'. For the last few days the weather has been inclement. So you have to find things to do. We went to Cabo Cope:

There's a sort of cavity under the rocky shore on which you stand and here and there are holes. When the waves roll in and break they fill the cavity and force air out through the holes, making noises like a snorting giants. That's the audio bit - the visual bit? The spray goes up to make rainbows in the sun. Very uplifting.

Sorry I didn't really capture the spectrum but the camera doesn't always tell the truth - or just maybe the rainbows were in our minds. Who knows.