Sardinia in May Day 14 - La Marmorata, Isola dei Gabbiani, Porto Liscia, Rena Maiore

The world, well, our world at Capo Testa di Santa Teresa di Gallura is washed clean the next morning. We head east by car and our first stop is Spiaggia La Marmorata. Now here's a beautiful beach, easily walkable firm sand, transparent softly sloping water, nobody, Mediterranean vegetation looking south. Unfortunately an enormous hotel/resort brooding on the hill to the west. Don't look in that direction and it's a great beach.

There aren't many tracks or paths along the coast in this area, or at least we can't find them, so we give up and drive to Isola dei gabbiani. Bad idea.  The first pay parking actually in operation in May, dozens of motorhomes and campervans and well, people, generally. It's the reign of the kite surfers. We decide to leave them to it and escape.

Driving back towards Santa Teresa, after just a few kilometres, a deviation on the right takes us to spiaggia porto Liscia. Here kite surfing is forbidden because it's an area dedicated to windsurfers, fewer and less invasive. We walk a while (not bad for walking) and then just watch the windsurfers, the occasional kite surfer anyway and the first wingfoilers we've ever seen. Fascinating! The beach is beautiful, windy, but with layers of colour starting from the pink on the shore..

Beautiful. Time to get back for lunch.

After lunch and a rest we drive ten minutes to Lu Pultiddolu parking to walk along another stretch of coast. The little beach is full of seaweed and a lone sunbather who doesn't mind it. We head south toward the Rena Maiore beach. The wind is still very strong and we can see kite surfers in the distance there as well. The sea is rough and the waves are high so when we get to the beach we can't actually get down. The higher path is closed off because there's some work going on. A long detour which I'd prefer not to detail ensues, and we find a sheltered corner on the beach to sunbathe and watch the waves and the surfers. 

In the evening back to Capo Testa for the sunset, although the moon is nearly full and vying for attention.