A Coastal Walk around Southeastern Malta

Today,Sunday, has opened with lightning, thunder and rain. So, I will relish the storm and write while listening to the thunderous booms over the harbor and the raindrops knocking on the balcony doors.

 

Me, looking over the salt ponds in Marsaskala.

A bay along the walk.

A field of red poppies and yellow daisies.

The Malta Coastal Walk (written by Jonathan Henwood and Emmet McMahon; our friend, Marie knows Jonathan) is a handy spiral bound booklet of 13 hikes varying in distance from 7 to 15 kilometers that goes around the entire coast of the island.  The hikes contain little elevation gains as the highest point on the island is 250 meters around the southwestern coast near Dingli.  Of the 13 hikes, I have rambled along 3 of them, Andrew, 4.  We took off Saturday afternoon on bus 83 to Marsaskala in order "to bag" Walk 4.  We hiked for 2 hours with only one elevation gain and ended up in our favorite fishing village, Marsaxlokk. Here are some pictures we snapped along the way.

Limestone cliffs.

Zejtun Cathedral in the distance.

Cactus Flowers.

Along the ridge above Marsaxlokk.

Luzzos in the Marsaxlokk Harbor.

Tomorrow, we are flying to  Istanbul,Turkey.  As we will be gone for two weeks, I anticipate little will be blogged until our return to our flat  in Valletta on April 28.

Our flat is above the red car.

Colorful doors along the wharf in Valletta.