Subject: Re: Interesting link Spain/Morocco disputed islands
Date: Jul 17, 2002 @ 20:40
Author: marcelmiquel@navegalia.com (<marcelmiquel@...>)
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>A while back I e-mailed the Spanish tourist authority, asking if it__________________________________________________________________
>was possible to visit Penon de Velez de la Gomera, Penon de Alhucemas
>and/or the Chafarinas. I've appended the replies I received, since
>they might be of interest here.
>From various tourist guidebooks, I've gleaned that a rough track runs
>for about 5km from the road-end at Cuatro Torres de Alcala to the bay
>at Badis, opposite Velez de la Gomera. I presume this is the grey
>line marked on the modern map at Marcel's site. Some sources indicate
>this is driveable, others that a walk is involved - so I guess it's
>accessible by 4x4 only.
>This seems to be confirmed by the photo at lower right on
>http://teleline.terra.es/personal/fgotor/fernando3.htm
>there's a helicopter on a landing pad (which I think must be on one
>of the lower crags of the island itself), and beyond that is (I
>think) a car with a windsurfer on the roof, parked on the sand-spit.
>In the background, some sort of road switchbacks down from higher
>ground to the spit - interesting that it doesn't skirt around to
>arrive on the flat ground at Badis Bay, to the left of the photo, but
>this route is confirmed by the grey line on the map.
>Letters appended - the first was the original reply to my query, the
>second adds information about Alhucemas.
>Grant