La Divisa - August 2010

Our visit to La Divisa in August 2010 was excellent.  We started out by visiting our friends, Vic and Lyn in Gibraltar, along with two astronomy friends from Houston, Larry Mitchell and Cynthia Gustava.  Then we returned to La Divisa to do some great astronomy and finished off the visit with a Fiesta at the house to celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary (Crystal) and my 64th birthday.  Hope you enjoy the photos as much as we enjoyed taking them.
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The trip started with sailing off Gibraltar with Vic and Lyn Everyone took a turn at steering - this is captain Larry This time we were blessed with a bit of a breeze And Lyn enjoyed looking for Dolphins Back on the Rock we decided to see the sights
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Cynthia bought postcards to mail back home And enjoyed the views from higher up the Rock We visited the fortress locations and WW2 guns Chatted to our guide And saw the Gibraltar apes
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Some of the caves were spectacular, this one having been turned into a concert venue We got a great view of an EasyJet plane landing on the airstrip - across the access road Larry enjoyed his tour and seeing the history Then we drove to our house, where we enjoyed a dip in the refreshing, cool plunge pool Took a day trip over the mountains to show our visitors around the area
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And visited the location where some of Larry's favourite westerns were filmed And where we could watch a typical western movie scene acted out And of course we did some astronomy - here Cynthia is looking through the binocular And Larry captured some stunning sights of the Milky Way With the observatory in the foreground where we were taking images for TSP
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Once our American visitors had departed we had a fiesta For a large number of our friends There was a lot of live music and good food and drink. Our co-host, Roger worked very hard
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Carving salmon And handing out Cava To help us celebrate our wedding anniversary And Paul's birthday And several other birthdays
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It was enjoyed by young and old alike And there was much talking Until clouds poured over the mountain and drove everyone indoors Where the party continued Including the cutting of the cake!  Thanks to all who helped.
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