Los Albentosa park

Being a nice day we decided to take a picnic and try out the new Los Albentosa park, the park is located at the back of the cemetery on the La Mata natural park, where there is plenty of car parking. The area covers 125,000 square metres and features loads of picnic tables, a childrens play area and an adult exercise zone with full size equipment, also there are toilet facilities -not open yet! water points and plenty of rubbish receptacles.
There are around 5000 pine trees and a selection of other trees that have been planted by local organisations, so there is plenty of shade. Although the sign at the entrance has no camping as one of the rules, the town hall say it will be permitted over the Easter holidays. The sign also says dogs must be kept on a leash but while we were there, that rule was being ignored.

Back again

Hi everyone, O.K.weve been away for a while, got back safely from Australia, and had two family bereavements in the last few months. We have now rented out our Formentera apartment and moved to Guardamar by the sea.
Mary and myself went for a walk around La Mata Reserve this morning it was a beautifull morning and peacefull, it was nice to see an osprey sitting on a pole in the middle of the lagoons. The La Mata resource centre has been upgraded since we were last there, it is bigger and they seem to have more information.
The work on the N332 between Guardamar and Torrevieja has completely ground to a halt, when we went through this morning ,there was not one worker or piece of machinery in sight. the contractors seem to have completely abandoned the work, seems that we are going to have the half finished project forever.

La Mata Nature reserve

Extending across the municipal areas of Torrevieja, Los Montesinos and Guardamar del Segura are the La Mata and Torrevieja lagoons, which are still used for salt extraction, as they have been for many decades. Salt water is drawn from the Cabeç de la Sal in Pinoso and left to dry in the sun until the water evaporates. The marshlands here are an important wintering and nesting area for over one hundred different bird species, such as the greater flamingo, the black-necked grebe and various duck varieties. At La Mata there are good walking tracks on a variety of terrain and several hides for studying the nature, Access is well signposted and is gained off the N332 at La Mata and there is an information centre at the back of the car park.