cadiz, spain

spanish garbage dump


contemplating the meaning of life

this is the house of the governors. the red drapes were hung for a festival that happened the previous day.



a cool building across from the cathedral

cadiz was a lovely beach town. it is situated on an island that is connected to the mainland of spain by a small isthmus, so it did not have the typical big-city feel most of the ports we went to had. while in cadiz, we walked to yet another cathedral.

this one cost to even go inside so we just hung out on the steps for a little while and took pictures of the outside.

after walking around the old streets for awhile and seeing some neat buildings we found this tower with a camera obscura inside. we climbed to the top of this tower and inside of a dark room there was a small window in the cieling right above a huge white concave screen. above and outside were lenses that captured sunlight and when directed in a certain manner could portray live images of the city onto the screen. we were able to meander through the entire city and see cars moving, laundry floating in the breeze and even people walking around in the streets. it was really neat. after the darkroom show, we climbed to the very top where the lenses where to see with our own eyes what we had seen in the darkroom.

after the tower, we grabbed a couple napolitanas, and headed for the beach. there just off a pier on either side of a small bay were an old military base that was still used by the spanish and, of course, a castle. we walked to both. while we walked out to the military thing, we spotted this homosexual couple doing a photo shoot of each other on the beach. one was the photographer and the other was of course the model. and boy did he think he was sexy.

he had a black leather jacket and he would fling it around and make sexy poses. we were laughing hysterically. on our way back to the boat we walked through a really pretty park with some neat tree carvings {?}.

boats waiting for the next tide to come in