I did set out to find Es Claper des Gegant, another Talayotic settlement, but I somehow missed it, climbing all over Sa Tortuga instead. The rest was cross country hiking.
Date(s): 2007. Photos by Aymar. 1 - 43 of 43 Total. 3591 Visits.
1 Claper des Gegant I must have practically passed it. The bus dropped me off at Camp Planeta. I walked down PMV 4042 till I passed the fork at Corte Pume and then turned off the road and hiked up Sa Tortuga. Through helm oak grove and macchia. Did stumble upon sundry artifacts but no Talayotic walls. A better map might have helped.
2 Claper des Gegant Corte Pume, PMV 4042. Could that be a road marker.
3 Claper des Gegant into the maquis
4 Claper des Gegant Lilies strung out along rock fissures
5 Claper des Gegant Providence has provided rocks with Swiss cheese holes for Arum to grow.
6 Claper des Gegant more tucked away Arum
7 Claper des Gegant After the flood. Mountain top rock draped in a fishing net. I know that all of Majorca was once covered with sea but I do not think it was that recent.
8 Claper des Gegant more fishing tackle
9 Claper des Gegant Better than no wild life at all. The tangerine breasted bird which I temporarily evicted from an olive tree was to fast for me.
Download MOV 10 Claper des Gegant.mov not sure what he is up to
11 Claper des Gegant Not sure what those Talaiots used for footwear but some of those rocks have rather sharp edges.
12 Claper des Gegant Could probably market it as moon rock without the crustaceous lichens and the telltale diffraction blue.
13 Claper des Gegant at the summit
14 Claper des Gegant
15 Claper des Gegant bold upright for once
16 Claper des Gegant population of fair weather cumulus
17 Claper des Gegant cloud catching
18 Font de Sa Cala front garden hibiscus
19 Font de Sa Cala cut away view, post Talaiotic
20 Font de Sa Cala, vicinity some kind of oversized ragwort
21 Font de Sa Cala, vicinity
22 Font de Sa Cala, vicinity
23 Font de Sa Cala, vicinity a lofty stand of pines, possibly umbrella pines
24 Font de Sa Cala back at the coast
25 Font de Sa Cala You want to find the custodian, just follow the bell rope. It crisscrosses the gardens. (Not sure to which tail it is tied. As for the activation, a log will fly every full hour.)
26 Cala Pedruscada Century plant (Agave), non flowering
27 Cala Pedruscada unformed splash of rock
28 Cala Pedruscada walrus waiting diner (clams are on the menu, some kelp dressing)
29 Cala Ratjada See no need to batten the hatches.
30 Cala Ratjada stacked up straw parasols (size two sombreros)
31 Cala Ratjada with sea view - plastic chair with broken back in a tennis court
32 Cala Ratjada tacking
33 Cala Ratjada
34 Cala Ratjada
35 Cala Ratjada bifocal overlay - had still to lie flat on the ground to get the angle right. (Most swimming pools are not drained for winter.)
36 Cala Ratjada nocturnal version (did stay up all night)
37 Cala Ratjada shower by the sea
38 Cala Ratjada Skip by the sea. (Somewhere you have to dump it.)
39 Chenopodium rubrum Red Goosefoot (or kin). Stem with officer stripes.
40 Cala Ratjada San Moll, acronym beach
41 Cala Ratjada beachline house at sunset
42 Cala Ratjada sharing secrets
43 Cala Ratjada sidewalk - hooded jackets are in fashion
