BITWRATHPLOOB World Tour

BITWRATHPLOOB On The Beach
erik posted in Detours, Videos on September 5th, 2007

The weather finally improved, and the BITWRATHPLOOB was able to enjoy a nice day at the beach in nearby Laredo, Spain. Laredo’s beach is 7 km long and is extremely wide, even at high tide. Spaniards from all across the north of Spain spend their vacations here.

In order to truly communicate the natural beauty of Laredo’s beach, I had to find a spot on a nearby mountain where I could take a shot looking down onto it’s unique shape. So I headed up some rural roads and ended up stopping at a dead end where there was nothing but a radio tower. The road and tower were completely surrounded by a barbed wire fence. Behind the tower, I found a human-sized hole in the fence that I could get through if I crawled. Once on the other side of the fence, I headed a couple dozen paces to where I could see the beach and heard a startled “MOO!!”, and the local bovine resident looked up at me. Watching more closely where I stepped, I continued towards the beach side of the hill. And that’s where the following view hit my eyes…

How beautiful is that? It goes right out to a peak and then curves back around.

Here’s a wider one with a bovine extra bonus on the right. Click on it to see notes in Flickr.

The BITWRATHPLOOB overlooks Laredo’s impressive beach.

Tall grass.

Then we headed down to the beach. We went almost to the tip to have fewer people walking around thinking that I broke out of the asylum.

Mommy, what’s that thing crawling around on that sand dune over there?

I’ve never been on a beach with such fine, white sand.

Heading towards the water. No pants to roll up for wading. What a time-saver!

Reflected ‘ploob.

Uh oh! Here come the waves!

The BITWRATHPLOOB wets his coat tails.

Bathing in the crystal clear water.

The BITWRATHPLOOB asked to be buried up to his head in the sand. He said this is called an “Inverted Ostrich”. I obliged.

On the way back home, we stopped by to see some of the decaying floats from the Batalla de Flores (Flower Battle), an annual event in Laredo with a competition to see who can make the most impressive parade float using real flowers. They are made out of wood and styrofoam, and then the flowers are added at the last minute, of course. The winning floats each year are put on display like this until all the flowers fall off.