We are trying to walk different places when we can. I know it looks like we are on vacation, but we only walk for an hour or so every morning. We are hoping to find some fun places, on our end of the island, to take the Young Adults for activities. There is a wilderness area a 5 minute walk from our apartment. We discovered that it has dozens of trails that we will soon discover.
This is the trail head area.
Of course the trail is full of cactus and the many local plants I have never seen before.
These are old garden walls, which were built to farm (I hope to find out their age). There are many around the island crumbling away, no longer in use. They have been replaced with the huge mesh greenhouses I posted pictures of previously. There are dozens of these walls in this walking area. Most of the trails probably were created to service these gardens.
The vegetation we pass.
We often see an English couple with their dogs in the area close to our apartment. They told us about an old volcanic caldera, which you can see in the distance. We hiked to it along the beach, which is a 5 min. drive from our apartment.
Along the trail. Mike would like to have a go here.
There are not too many sandy beaches. The trail weaves through this.
The coastline is mostly hard black volcanic rock.
Mustard colored moss on the rocks.
The view of Costa del Silencio from the top of the Caldera.
The top of the Caldera looking toward Red Mountain.
Behind me you can see into the center of the old volcano - the Caldera.
After seeing Costa del Silencio from the top of the Caldera walk we decided to drive to the city on our P-Day and found this great fountain - very clever. It must spray at night.
The Elders told us that sometimes they spin around on the pipes below the water.
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