view of the hotel from the hill

The tower

September 30th Villasimius        Today started cloudy and after a good night's sleep and a good breakfast we decided to spend most of the day visiting the local area.  We could see an old tower from the hotel grounds and thought we would start there.  We drove in the car to the end of the metalled road and went first to the end of the peninsular before we climbed again and arrived at the 16th Century tower built as a lookout by the Spanish when they owned these parts.  On the way up we had a good view of the lagoon and the hotel.  We came back to the car by a different route, climbing down to a beach and seeing a now defunct granite quarry.

We had a quick snack and then drove to a beach further north, Punta Molentis, which was quite pretty and had some fishing boats and a little cafe run by a generator and sold ice creams.  This fortified us for the journey home and we arrived just in time before the start of a long-lasting, impressive thunderstorm.

Punta Molentis