Charles Crowley – Page 6 – Camino del Norte 2024

El Brusco!! No!!

El Brusco is a steep hill along the trail today. We climbed it in 2018. Beautiful views, super steep, both up and down. You can check out our 2018 for photos. But we were still in our 60s then. This time it was “How could we have been so stupid as to try that?” and we went around. Here is the track and elevations. El Brusco is the big spike in the elevation map.

And here we are today, satellite view. We are the blue dot, walking the beautiful beach and being glad we didn’t have to climb El Brusco to get to the next beach.

When we got to the end of the beach we turned left. Missed the beach on the other side of El Brusco. All the rest of our walk today was inland.

Street people changing their mind

Water waves

I took freshman physics but I was never that good with waves. We were walking up a steep, paved street and the water coming down always made waves like in this video. Can someone with a better under of physics tell us why it does that?

4/18 WynChar Diary

Rain ponchos lost: 1
Rain ponchos found: 1 (see the post on this)
Transport: 7.0 miles walking, one bus ride, one taxi ride, no little boat across the ria.
Interesting characters and repeat meetings: several

We are staying in Santoña. There is a cute little ferry that crosses the ria but we missed it, it stops at 2:30 pm.

Surprisingly we met Kelly (the priest) and Christina again. See post soon.

Moss along the trail

It’s pretty wet around here. The trail led through the woods. Dozens of rocks were completely covered in moss like these.

When we were walking with the Irish guy we mentioned how green it was and asked if Ireland was greener. He gave us a sly smile and said this looks about as green as Ireland but maybe Ireland is a little greener. I could imagine Stephen Fry saying the same thing in the same way.