Some 80 km from us is Cap de Creus – a rocky outcrop and natural park with wonderful views and nice hiking paths. Thus we decided to just quickly drive there on a Wednesday late afternoon and use the long hours of summer to get around a bit.

During its flow the lava which formed the land created all kinds of spectacular layers

Eddies

Twists and turns

Things like petrified rocks

or simply harder material which erodes slower

leaving stumps standing around

one more flow

and a dragon scale

a cave

and another outcrop

The land is rather bleak, stony and not so fertile – being high summer and quite warm the cloud cover together with the stones made you feel like in an oven…

Shrubs in passing sunlight

Sun is very low already

And some nice grasses alongside

This cactus must have had some kind of disease

and these here are in full bloom

Finally, after the short hike we called it a day and finalized it in Cadaques