Author Archives: merv
4 seasons in one day – Moroccan weather can be full of surprises
We’re Irish. We are pretty much used to all kinds of weather. We even have a weather stone with us to know what the weather is doing. We leave it outside the window, and keep an eye on it. The way it works in Ireland is that if the stone is wet, it’s raining. If … Continue reading
A Tough life – for Man and Machine
Seeing as some folks were interested in the old plant equipment, here are another few shots of the gear. When I was taking them, the guy that looked after things at the yard (meaning the area fenced in by the rusty wire) came over to see what I was doing. We had no language in … Continue reading
Where is moglander? 13 March 2012 (Western Sahara)
Western Sahara [google-map-v3 width=”350″ height=”350″ zoom=”7″ maptype=”HYBRID” mapalign=”center” directionhint=”false” language=”default” addmarkermashupbubble=”false” addmarkermashupbubble=”false” addmarkerlist=”Tarfaya, morocco{}bed_breakfast1-2.png{}Right by the ocean” maptypecontrol=”true” pancontrol=”true” zoomcontrol=”true” scalecontrol=”true” streetviewcontrol=”true” scrollwheelcontrol=”false” bubbleautopan=”true” showbike=”false” showtraffic=”false” showpanoramio=”false”] And we are on the way back up North from the Western Sahara. The map below shows where else we’ve been. We’ve traveled south to get a … Continue reading
Birdlife at Plage Blanche, Morocco
Plage Blanche is a 40km+ long white beach. At the northern end, there is a river that flows into the sea, and this means there is a river valley that makes it easy to get to the beach. It also creates a large area fo non tidal water, and this makes a good location for … Continue reading
The Enduro – Bikes at last!
I’ve been a bit of a closet biker for quite a few years. I went through all the right motions when I was a kid, managing to get my first bike before I was 16, and having a trail of dirt bikes of one kind or another until I discovered that going round a track … Continue reading
The Shipwreck.
Morocco’s coast has a fair few shipwrecks, but not many more photographed than this one at N 29 16.787 W010 15.406. We drove here from Sidi Ifni, leaving the town by the road out past the port, but sneaking our way down to the beach to drive along to find the shipwreck. We drove past … Continue reading