Sardinia trip, March 2019
We spent three weeks in Sardinia in August 2018 as a family vacation, with not as much time as would have been needed to really explore this wonderful island from a photographic viewpoint.
Thus, after I retired a few months thereafter, I decided to go back on my own for another couple of weeks, and settled for end of March 2019. I rented a house on the western coast of the island, with people who also owned an apartment near the eastern coast, and were willing to include use of it in the rental. That gave me bases on both sides of the island, which was ideal, as the road situation on the mountainous, eastern side of Sardinia is quite bad, and it takes ages to go to one place to another.
As usual, I will caption in bold type below these introductory paragraphs whenever needed.
We are here on the southwestern coast of Sardinia, between Buggerru and Portoscuso, in one of the most ore-rich areas of the island. A nearby town is named “Carbonia”, and that says a lot!
The beautiful cliffs of Masua plunge into the Mediterranean. They were heavily mined and in truth, on this photo, with good eyes and if you know where to look, you will discern the giant arch carved into the face of the cliff that served as a natural harbor of sorts for the barges to come in and be loaded with ore directly “vomited” out from the mine.
It is a great-looking, but also quite forbidding, place, now deserted but for the ghosts of the mine and its workers...
The Pan di Zucchero (“Loaf of Sugar”) is this enormous rock sitting in the Mediterranean a couple hundred meters away from the cliff face, and which unmistakably looks like a crouching lion. I will upload more photos of it, as it is one of the most spectacular natural sights in Sardinia.
This 60–second long exposure was taken near sunset from a little dock on the beach of Masua (see the behind-the-scenes snapshots). I had hoped for the Sun to make an appearance behind the Pan di Zucchero but it didn’t happen.
Sardinia trip, March 2019
We spent three weeks in Sardinia in August 2018 as a family vacation, with not as much time as would have been needed to really explore this wonderful island from a photographic viewpoint.
Thus, after I retired a few months thereafter, I decided to go back on my own for another couple of weeks, and settled for end of March 2019. I rented a house on the western coast of the island, with people who also owned an apartment near the eastern coast, and were willing to include use of it in the rental. That gave me bases on both sides of the island, which was ideal, as the road situation on the mountainous, eastern side of Sardinia is quite bad, and it takes ages to go to one place to another.
As usual, I will caption in bold type below these introductory paragraphs whenever needed.
We are here on the southwestern coast of Sardinia, between Buggerru and Portoscuso, in one of the most ore-rich areas of the island. A nearby town is named “Carbonia”, and that says a lot!
The beautiful cliffs of Masua plunge into the Mediterranean. They were heavily mined and in truth, on this photo, with good eyes and if you know where to look, you will discern the giant arch carved into the face of the cliff that served as a natural harbor of sorts for the barges to come in and be loaded with ore directly “vomited” out from the mine.
It is a great-looking, but also quite forbidding, place, now deserted but for the ghosts of the mine and its workers...
The Pan di Zucchero (“Loaf of Sugar”) is this enormous rock sitting in the Mediterranean a couple hundred meters away from the cliff face, and which unmistakably looks like a crouching lion. I will upload more photos of it, as it is one of the most spectacular natural sights in Sardinia.
This 60–second long exposure was taken near sunset from a little dock on the beach of Masua (see the behind-the-scenes snapshots). I had hoped for the Sun to make an appearance behind the Pan di Zucchero but it didn’t happen.