This morning we returned to Cabo de Gata, first starting by heading to El Playazo in Rodalquilar.
We then hiked to Playa Las Negras in Las Negras, passed old Moorish terraced files and Spanish fortifications.
Once to Las Negras, we continued on...
And on...
And on...
Until we reached the Bohemian village and beach at Calle de San Pedro.
Unfortunately, this beach was a bit too "Bohemian" for our blood. When we finally got to the beach from a small batch of bushes we were greeted by pure flesh. And to be clear, every beach in Spain is a nudist beach, which is pretty liberating. But this was an extreme case...the first thing we saw was a naked guy doing headstands on the beach, with another fella playing Bob Marley on guitar, while four guys built a "tent" out of a beach towel. And it never really got any less weird from there - like the old, naked guy who 'sailed' an old boat up and down the beach, about 15 feet from the shore, legs up watching; or the various pot-marked 'latrines'. After watching the dogs shit all around us, and smelling the faint waft of human excrement, we decided to double back and retrace our steps.
And after another 2.5 hours, back to where we started at El Playazo, we had about the most enjoyable, breathtaking, and needed swims of our lives.
Before ending our night in Almeria with 10 free tapas (seriously, the tapas scene here is amazing), all the while encircled by children with their own tables (look behind Amanda) and newborns until well into the night.
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