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Monday, 28 January 2013

Standing on a Pillar of Hercules

Looking across the Straits to the southern Pillar of Hercules ( Ceuta) with the Riff Mountains beyond.

Other points  of interest at the southerly tip of Gibraltar:
The Ibrahim al Ibrahim Mosque faces south towards Morocco.

Panning to the West a few degrees...
The tower of Our Lady of the Shrine of Europe...On this visit we also saw several boys and men wearing the yarmulke - they are mostly Separdi Jews in Gibraltar - and a guy walking along with two sulphur crested cockatoos on his shoulders.

These grow in profusion here - we'll have interesting salads!

We walked from our mooring to Europa point in less than an hour. On the way we had our first sighting of the Barbary apes - sitting sunning themselves on a balcony of the most expensive hotel in Gibraltar!
My zoom is not good but you should be able to enlarge this pic - the adults are the pair sitting to the left  of the balcony;  if you look carefully the baby is to the left of them again just beyond the separating wall - getting some quiet time :O)
 

 

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