Up early and out for a run this morning. That sounds simple, and would have been at home, but here it was either fiercely steeply down or up with very little flat. I had been warned by Katy whose parents also have a villa here!! I eventually found a route which, although tough, was enjoyable and involved a half mile stretch along the beach road with wonderful views. This week was probably the only time this year that I shall run in a vest; by and large, at home, I don't move fast enough to keep warm in a vest any longer.
Run and breakfast, over we drove back towards Malaga to the superb estuarine reserve of Guadalhorce. It is a typical marsh land but rather than reeds as there would be at home it is bamboo. We had a very productive and enjoyable visit with 37 species, 14 of which, at home, are either extremely rare or not possible to see at all. Highlights included sardinian warbler, zitting cisticola (fan-tailed warbler), hoopoe, nightingale, black-winged stilt, squacco heron, mediterranean gull, gull-billed tern, glossy ibis, marbled duck, kentish plover and yellow-legged gull. There were quite a lot of clouded yellows about and we saw pond turtles as well as a cattle egret doing what they should among a small herd of horses.
From the reserve we went into Fuengirola to have a late lunch at one of the famous chiringuitos beach bars specialising in seafood, especially grilled sardines BBQed over olive wood fires and which were delicious. Next up was ice cream and a walk along the beach which was lovely and the sea excitingly rough. A wave was misjudged resulting in two very soggy Pickwells.
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