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| Those are big trees and that bull is bigger than a billboard. |
ON the Rock
Attached to Spain, but NOT Spain, Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory; proudly IS and
proudly HAS BEEN for centuries.
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| All of those dark patches are military tunnel openings in the Rock |
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| Europa Point Lighthouse |
- the monkeys
The monkey population is actually registered (300+) and named, and tattooed, and loved by locals and tourists alike. BUT they may well be over-enthusiastic or vicious if they want the apple or Snickers Bar that is in your pack. We observed one hungry monkey forcefully TAKE a nearby tourist's green apple.
The monkey population is actually registered (300+) and named, and tattooed, and loved by locals and tourists alike. BUT they may well be over-enthusiastic or vicious if they want the apple or Snickers Bar that is in your pack. We observed one hungry monkey forcefully TAKE a nearby tourist's green apple.
~ 13 miles cross the mouth of the Mediterranean
Sea toward Morocco. The ancient Greeks
called the two sides “The Pillars of Hercules” – on the one side the Rock of
Gibraltar and the other pillar is the mountain visible in Morocco
~‘back’ toward Spain: To access Gibraltar from Spain (to cross the border) pedestrians alight
from their buses, flash their passports, and proceed when the green light
indicates, on foot across the runway of Gibraltar’s only airstrip, seen below here side-to-side.
~ down toward the Mediterranean Sea.
To the right of this photo is the incredibly busy and successful international bunkering port.
To the right of this photo is the incredibly busy and successful international bunkering port.
By the droves, ships come here to fuel up, to take on
groceries, for engineering purposes, and for minor repairs. Gibraltar has 100%
employment plus 10,000 Spaniards and Moroccans come daily and/or weekly to work
in the Gibraltar economy – largely in this ship-servicing capacity.
INSIDE the Rock
This natural stalactite/stalagmite cavern is currently used as a concert hall with unique and excellent
acoustics. Here one can enjoy opera, chamber music, or rock concerts!
During WWII this cave was used as a hospital, complete with triage, operating chambers, and wards. In the damp of a cave wounds do not heal quickly so these were not perfect conditions, but the Rock did
protect and shelter from air raids.
There are, inside the Rock of Gibraltar, 32 miles of tunnels, soldier's bunk rooms and women nurse'sm quarters, kitchens, latrines, passageways, strategy rooms and chambers for gun emplacements.
The first of these were tunneled in 1782-83 in order to place big guns to defend agains the French and the Spanish. The majority of this maze of passages were developed in World War II. The Allied invasion of French North Africa under Dwight Eisenhauer was coordinated from inside the Rock
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