Subject: Re: Interesting link Spain/Morocco disputed islands
Date: Jul 17, 2002 @ 20:40
Author: marcelmiquel@navegalia.com (<marcelmiquel@...>)
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It seems to be accessible:

"BADES
A 50 km environ de la ville en allant vers l’ouest, et face au penôn de
BADES, se trouve la plage de BADES qui s’étend sur 450 mètres de
longueur. Accessible par une piste carrossable. "

( from:
http://lamin12.maroc.to/photo5.html

Marcel


>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



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