The third instalment of Rich and Bill’s hike to save the Spanish Imperial Eagle…
We walked through the salt lakes area, on the way to Guardamar. Here the biodiversity was very much in evidence; this area is now a national park, among the fauna we saw were curlew, flamingos in their hundreds, dragon flies, butterflies and lizards.
Once we arrived at Guardamar we were interviewed by Katharina from a local German paper. We hadn’t even had chance to check into the hotel and did the interview in sweaty gear, drinking beer - what a sacrifice eh!
For the next few days, faced with deteriorating weather conditions, we soldiered on to Torrevieja (little England) in heavy rain and thunderstorms. Throughout this part of our journey, we met up with many journalists from various towns along the route.
Hopefully, the focus upon us and our 'wacky' idea to do this bizarre thing has had the desired effect of lifting SEO's profile in the eyes of the Spanish people. Part of our aim has been to increase membership to SEO and active participation in their activities in the local community. The same is also true for the much larger, sister organisation in the UK, the RSPB.
From Torrevieja, the weather improved and thankfully, so did our feet. The temperature climbed, but so had our fitness: 'bring it on' my mate, Bill would say.
We were more tired than we would like to admit, to be honest, but our determination had hardened as we could how see our ultimate goal, in the very far distance, namely La Manga Del Mar Menor (the in land sea).
Read the last episode next week