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At The Beach

5uperman — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:38:36 +0000

I love the sun and it was 32C in the shade on most days. If I wasn’t on the beach, in the pool, at the gym or walking around benidorm, I was asleep or too drunk to remember!

We were flying home a few hours later, so we took a walk along the Benidorm beach and went shopping. On the way back I decided to wade in the sea. All my clothes except my shorts and some pants for the flight. When we arrived back home just after midnight I still had sand in my shoes.

As the waves were hitting the beach, I saw some fish swimming in the crest, feeding as the wave crashed on the beach and swimming back as the wave was pulled back into the sea. I scooped down and caught one of the small fish.

Coastline

5uperman — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:53:14 +0000

The Benidorm coastline consists of 3 coves, these photos were taken along all 3 coves.

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Local Landscape

5uperman — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:23:34 +0000

From Benidorm you can see a wide mountain range which surrounds the three coves that make up Benidorm. One of these peaks has an unusual cut in it. I kept meaning to ask the local tourist office what had caused it, but tourist office spoke little English and my Spanish wasn’t good enough to ask them with any confidence that I would understand their reply.

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Me on the Balcony

5uperman — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:56:35 +0000

A few images of me on the balcony in Finestrat, Benidorm, Spain.

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And finally, a photo of me late at night in a local british bar. All the rest had closed by this time of night, drink in one hand, cigar in the other!

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Sunset

5uperman — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:44:59 +0000

Using my new camera I took quite a few photos of the sunset. When the sun was setting, it would set behind the mountains where there was usually a few layers of clouds.

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View from the Balcony

5uperman — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:27:46 +0000

The view from the balcony of the 14th floor apartment was very nice providing you didn’t look down as the complex had laid the foundation for another apartment tower, but had not gone any further. This had made it a trap for rubbish and standing water. Not to mention the “Indoor Heated Pool” that was “Closed for Maintenance”, but in reality it was closed because the roof had collapsed over a year ago and nothing had been done. The twisted metal still hung out of the walls where the roof was now slumped over the edge of the walls, screws and wall plugs still in place.

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The flood

5uperman — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:35:41 +0000

While in Benidorm, Spain, there were two days of heavy rain and thunder storms. It was during the same time that there was a tsunami in vietnam, typhoon in the philipines and a tsunami warning in new zealand. When first arriving at Alicante airport, I heard that there had not been much rain at all for around 4 months.

After a heavy storm, the road next to the apartment complex (which I had previously said looked like a storm drain) flooded. This road leads onto a main street close to the beach where there were piles of sand deposited by the flood water for a week after the flood. Locals told us that there had been more rain in that period of time since 2007.

Last time I was in spain I was sitting on the balcony watching the clouds form over the sea. Over a half our period I was amazed to see a tornado form on the beach front. Being from the uk and never seeing much serious weather I didn’t know if to take photos or shut the balcony doors and hide inside. So I stood on the balcony with a vodka and pepsi taking photos of the tornado forming.

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This first image is of the market that was on every friday on the road that had flooded (shown in the images below)

On the second day of the storms, the water had seeped into the apartment block next to us within the same complex and a section of the plaster fell from the side of the building and hit the floor below. Thankfully it was early in the morning and no one was around when it happened.

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