Coast watch

Another night when it wasn't too hot to sleep thankfully. A load of washing done and hung out to dry after breakfast, then editing next week's Morning Prayer audio, making the video and uploading it to You Tube. We then went for a walk along the senda litoral, where the mouth of the rio Guadalobon is blocked off once more. The charco teeming with fish and sometimes turtles as well is a natural feature, but I'm pretty confident nature is being given a helping hand here. I wish I could find out more.

While we were walking I heard the rumble of a high powered motor boat off shore. Not that of a pleasure craft or a fishing boat, but a high powered engine. I caught sight of a boat off-shore and took a picture that revealed the legend 'Guardia Civil'. This must be one of the high speed Spanish vessels that intercept drug transporting craft, commonly called RIBs (Rigid Inflatable Boats) with big racing engines, equipped to outpace standard police and customs patrol vessels. 

Costa del Sol far western beaches are destinations for drug runners in highly sophisticated organised crime enterprises. Cargo is off-loaded to a RIB outside territorial waters, then run ashore to a rendezvous with transporting gangs on-shore. Andalucia outside of the holiday zone is economically deprived, so it's not good when drug crime is shown to pay, but this isn't prevention but rather mitigation of the reality. Real economic development, productive industry would do more for the health of the region and its crime rate.

Clare cooked swordfish for lunch, a delicious favourite of ours. I augmented yesterday's efforts to use all the veggies Clare's diet doesn't allow with brown lentils soaked overnight and cooked with garlic. The mix went down well with gluten free pasta, but the swordfish had to be savoured on its own!

After a siesta, Clare had a swim in the pool, then we went for another walk by the sea before supper, and for lack of anything better to do or watch, a couple of ancient episodes of NCIS before early bed. Both of us are feeling tired today, perhaps because of the amount of walking we did yesterday.