We came across the nude beach. Easy to find. Watch for were the Malaga airport planes are coming and going and the beach is right under it. It goes on for over a mile. The golf course that runs along side it is not nude, although that would be interesting.
Chilling in the evening at the rock outcropping about a mile south of us. A favorite spot for fishermen.
The Blood Moon of July. Totally in the shadow of the Earth at this point.
The Blood Moon eclipse of late July. Charlotte’s Nikon camera does some nice zooming.
The danger of leaving your car for months on a dusty street is that vandals can draw stuff in your dust.
The moon over Torremolinos.
Some days the beach gets really busy.
A sago palm flowering.
This is subtle. Can you see it? This is the full moon in June just coming out of the haze above the ocean.
The feast of Virgen del Carmen. Mid July. This fiesta is celebrated in towns along Andalucia’s coast, from Huelva to Almeria. The Virgen del Carmen is the patron saint of fishermen, and the statue is taken from her church in a procession through the streets of her town, and then goes around the harbour to bless the fishing boats. Places where you can see this fiesta include Benálmadena, Torremolinos, Estepona, Fuengirola, Manilva, Marbella, Nerja and Vélez-Málaga in Malaga province; Punta Umbria and Isla Cristina in Huelva province; San Fernando, El Puerto de Santa Maria, Chipiona, Sanlucar de Barrameda, Conil de la Frontera, Barbate (famous for its tuna), La Linea de la Concepción (next to Gibraltar) and Cadiz city itself in Cadiz province; Salobrena in Granada province; El Ejido, Bentarique, Los Gallardos and Zurgena in Almeria province. This is how it looked in Bedalmedina.
Some of the boats in the harbor waiting for the statue of the virgin so they can parade it up and down the coast as a blessing.

It’s called the strawberry full moon.

I’m enjoying making rock towers while soaking up rays on the beach. I think I’m just getting started with this little art genre. The whole collection is on a separate tab under Pictures called ‘July Rocks.’
What the heck is this thing? It is absolutely HUGE. It was coming out of the Malaga port.
Excellent electric violin player doing a free concert on the promenade in front of our apartments.
Barefootin’ it!
We walk up and down the beach after our morning jog and pick up trash. There isn’t a lot compared to Bali, but it is still worth doing.
Beautiful sea shells scattered all over the beach.
Charlotte getting ready for a night out on the town. Our 19th wedding anniversary, June 7th.

Lots of beautiful lantanas here.
A calm morning and a silvery Mediterranean Sea.
On a clearer day we can see this snow capped mountain in the Sierra Nevada range.

A couple mallards have an early morning stop in our swimming pool.

This is the view of the tower from where we live. Virtually everything in this picture is newer than that tower. It has seen somewhere around 35 generations of people come and go. Buildings appear and disappear.

This is the oldest piece of Torremolinos we have seen. This tower is over 700 years old. The name of the city comes from this. Tower (torre) of Mills (molinos).

 

This is my view as I am entering pictures. We’re on the top floor (9th). Living with the glass sliding door open to the balcony and listening to the rhythm of Mediterranean waves.
We have beautiful views of sunrises above the Sierra Nevada mountains to the east.
I believe this is a a Chinese Silk Floss tree. They line the boulevard along the coast here in Torremolinos.
This is the most popular style of B-B-Q pit here along the coast of southern Spain. They roast a lot of sardines and other fish in the burning cork wood coals.
One of many spectacular sand sculptures along the beach in Torremolinos, Spain.
And here is the godfather resting comfortably on the beach.
All of these purses are made 100% out of cork. After all, this is the land of cork.
This ornate house is up the hill right behind us in Torremolinos. Somebody said it was built by a ‘crazy’ man. Beautiful kind of crazy!
In this little grove of trees by the beach there is a colony of bright green parrots. They sometimes get all wound up and create quite a ruckus.
We met this gal on the promenade. She had just rescued this little parrot.
Here I am at work, painting a hairy masterpiece.
Wandering the streets, trying to get lost, we came upon a pub named McKay, which is Charlotte’s maiden name. She had to pose with the owner.
On the first day out exploring Torremolinos, we found what is our all time favorite beer. Alhambra Reserve Roja. Very much like Abita’s Andygator.
The 650 residents of Bajondillo Apartments are such an eclectic, international bunch that when one of the elevators goes out, it needs to be explained in at least eight languages. I particularly like that third one.
We saw the artist (rock star?) (stoned juggler?) who was balancing these beauties.
Early one evening we heard these wonderful drum, flute sounds wafting into our apartment and went out to find where it was coming from. This fellow was out on the street in front of our apartments. I’ll post the video under ‘videos’. He was uplifting the entire vibration on this section of beach.
This section of Spain was not always Spain. The Moors had it for several centuries. England had it briefly. Phoneticians had their go at it. And here you can see some leftovers of when Italy-Rome ruled.
The second floor of this corner building is where Pablo Picasso grew up. We are up the beach in Malaga. There is a big square with an obelisk and pigeons love it here. We saw dozens of Picasso sketches of these birds.
We found a cool restaurant with lots of vegetarian and vegan options just to the right of Picasso’s home. Their logo is right in tune with the local art.
Catholicism and Catholic Cathedrals are a big deal here. At the cathedral in Malaga, this is half of the organ. The other half is on the opposite wall. When they toot these pipes it can reverberate with the power that would be appropriate for the church in that day.
Every day or two we see a big cruise ship porting in Malaga. Charlotte’s Nikon can zoom in on it.