Flowers By the Sea .:. Wednesday Morning Walk

This post is kind of inspired by another one, to be more exact, by @victorbz and his latest post The Mundane Challenge, where he took photos of simple, everyday things from his surroundings... As I like to walk and very often walk on the same routes, I got the idea to show my daily walks in a different way...

So, in front of you, you can see photos of beautiful flowers on the same route I was on when I created a post about chiringuitos de Altea a month ago...

It is the same route, but photos are taken in a different direction... Thanks to my OCD (Obsessive-compulsive disorder, not the famous curator account on HIVE 😃), I like to keep my photos in the exact order I took them... So, this time, I have taken them from my home, by the sea, to the almost end of the neighboring town Altea...

According to Google Maps, this route is around 6.5 km long if you are doing it by the sea, which is very pleasant and more peaceful...

The first couple of images are taken from the fence of the neighboring building, and the one above is the flower planted in front of the restaurant...

After a couple of minutes, we are already at the beach... It looks like late in the evening, but it was actually around 10 AM when I left home... It was mostly cloudy, but I suppose that the air was very humid as the sea is relatively hot compared with the time of the year... I suppose that the English word for this type of weather is "haze"? Or haze is more when the air is polluted?

There were a couple of tourists on the beach, but no sun, no fun... 😃

Most locals by the sea are small businesses like restaurants, gift shops, and bars, but there are exceptions in my small town... After the II World War, there was a "law jungle" in Spain, so if you wanted to build something, you could do it wherever you wanted... So, you can find some private properties almost at the seashores, which isn't possible nowadays... All beaches are public and the "first line" by the sea is "protected" from buildings...

But, on the other side, nobody can take your property if you own it from the past... That's why you can see even buildings (like this one) by the sea... This one has a small space for flowers in front and it looks great!

I'm not seeing roses too much in Spain and I'm always happy when I catch one in a photo... This isn't in my favorite red color, but it is still pretty!

I didn't know that this beautiful flower is also one type of rose... It's named Moss-rose, but these flowers are big as a thumbnail...

Slowly (but only here in the post as I was fast walking... 😃), we are getting to the Altea port where I have photographed this, already famous for the locals, boat that I have never seen in the water! For the 11 years that I live in this zone, this boat is at the same place, parked outside the water... What a pity!

I suppose that these galleries will look prettier in a couple of years when the "crawling" Bougainvillea covers the whole construction...

This orange/red "bush flower" Lantana is part of the roundabout and that's something that Spaniards like to do... They plant palm trees, bushes, and flowers in roundabouts and they aren't boring as they tend to be in other places... Most of the time, they do maintain them and keep them beautiful... Good job!

Another great idea is to cover the ground around the palm tree with these white flowers... That Plumbago gave a nice touch to this sea sidewalk...

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As there is a lot of restaurant by the sea, there are also cats... This is a nice "cat shelter" built by the town council where they feed them and control overpopulation...

My mobile phone camera has problems with taking photos that have this strong pink-red color... So, sorry about that...

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As this small river is going into the sea, I had to go a bit inland to cross the bridge, but I will be back to the seashore soon... :)

Oleander is probably the most common flower here and because of that, I didn't take a lot of photos of it... You can find it on people's fences, by the road, on the highway, etc... It grows everywhere and it doesn't need a lot of care to do so...

This is another beautiful example of Plumbago, but this time in a different color... Is it purple? Is it blue? 😃

This one is another of my favorite flowers (photo under)... The name is Queen of Sheba-vine which sounds like some species from StarWars... :)

Told you that we will come back to the sea...

I know that these aren't flowers, but I liked these stairways very much... So original, unique, and informal... :)

And slowly, we have reached the end of my today's walk... On the right, you can see the small part of the chiringuito that was my starting point in the already-mentioned post from a month ago...

So, I'm not a plant expert, nor a flower expert, but I like them very much... I didn't know the names of these flowers before writing this post, but I have found a great website where you can find that information...

So, if you have a photo of a plant and you want to know its name, you can go to https://identify.plantnet.org/, upload the photo (or enter the weblink to the photo) and it will give you an answer!

I hope you enjoyed the walk as I did!

Thank you for your valuable time,

~ph~

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