We
have done the walk from Javea Port to Denia Tower many times, but never led
it. We would like to add it to our
Thursday walks, but first wanted to do a recce.
We were glad to have David and Rosemary with us, as they have also
walked this area many times.
There was a major fire here last year, and it caused great damage. We passed this group cutting down fire
damaged trees
This is the result of tree cutting in just one section of the walk. Apparently they want to replace fir trees,
which burn very quickly and spread the fire
It
took us an hour to reach the lighthouse.
No problem following the path so far.
The whole area is very open, and the track well signed and easy to
follow.
The weather was a little hazy, and very pleasant whist walking. But it was a little cool at the top, and we
did not linger long over our water stop
In fact we did get a little chilled, and were glad to get on with the
walk
Much of the undergrowth is returning, but it is still a very open
space. This made it easy to keep our
bearings. But there was also a lot of
tracks, none going in the direction we wanted to. In addition someone has built a mass of
large cairns all over the area. Normally
cairns help to find the correct path, but there were so many that they just
confused. And it did not help that some
were not even on a track
David,
Rosemary and Jan kept raving about Barbary Nuts. They are quite pretty, but I can’t really
see what all the fuss is about
Despite the confusion we did find our way to the Denia tower, but we did
not find the path we had used with the Monday Group
It
was 1.15 when we reached the tower, and we were all more than ready for our
picnic lunch. We found a sun trap at
the tower, and settled down for a very pleasant and slightly extended break.
On
the way back we found a much better route, and one which is new to us. We
also found this large
collection of cairns, which David dubbed “fred flintstone”.
Being
David he could not resist adding to the cairns. Fortunately he did no damage this time.
We
returned to the abandoned police barracks, rather than to the windmills
overlooking Javea. It was already 3pm,
and we did not want to make the return journey any longer than necessary.
We returned to Javea Port down the same track we had used in the
morning. We could have used the road
through the urbanisation, but preferred this route
The
walk had taken 6.5 hours, covered 16km and elevation of 293 metres. But I am sure that we could do it in less
time and perhaps cut a little off the distance now that we had completed the
recce.
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