In the morning we woke up to find that our campsite was next to a large family of donkeys, non of whom were friendly like Sparks & Stitch, the donkeys on my uncle’s ranch. The little orange and white kitty was waiting at the door for breakfast. I had given him milk for dinner and he was patiently waiting for another saucer of milk at 9am. The owner of the campsite was very nice and was able to recommend an area outside of Ajaccio for us to stay tonight. The only goal for today was to find the location of the photo on the Lonely Planet book cover.
The photo on the cover is Pointe de la Parata with the iles de Sanguinaires right off the coast. We managed to successfully find Pointe de la Parata, only I would not be getting the photo I had hoped for because of 2 reasons. First, today is “national control-burn day,” or at least that’s what I’m calling it. Everyone is allowed to burn rubbish today. The hills with all the plumes of smoke look like something from “Apocalypse Now.” The entire area is enveloped in a smoky haze. Second, no blue sky what so ever, only a flat white sky and the threat of rain clouds coming from the mountains. This is our last day in Corsica, so I won’t be getting the photo I had hoped to come home with.
After hiking up and down the mountain opposite the Tower to get the Lonely Planet photo, we proceeded to hike out to the point. The path takes you to a good viewing spot of the islands and a steep look up at the tower. Here’s our conversation regarding the tower:
Matt: “So you wanna go up”
Suzanne: “Of course”
Matt: “I have a feeling it will look the same as it does from here only it will be closer.”
Suzanne: “Well, I’m going up.”
[Lots and lots of steep rocky steps later that left me sucking wind, we reached the top.]
Matt: “Yup, looks like the same tower only closer up.”
Tonight we are camping in Porticcio. The campsite is nice and we have a chance to do laundry, but there is no wi-fi. We will be returning the camper tomorrow at 9am, the only problem is that we are suppose to return it with a full tank of gas and the entire island seems to be out of diesel.
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