Hello everyone!
Nature inspires us and makes us feel good, sometimes we don't have to go far to enjoy it, and here near the Mediterranean Sea we discover a quiet place where we can walk trails and almost immerse ourselves in the vegetation, where supposedly a river passes...
Well, you can't see the river if you don't know it, since it practically goes under the surface, but we can walk on that delta of the Palancia River in the Spanish province of Valencia, and enjoy a walk in a reed bed of native Mediterranean vegetation just a few minutes and steps away from two coastal towns.
And this time we don't see the sea, this time the environment is different despite we are very close, this time we begin by enjoying not only the vegetation but also the rays of the sun that sometimes filter through the numerous reeds that form walls on the sides of the path. Natural dirt paths that we travel without really knowing what we will find, we just keep looking everywhere, until we notice different trees, bushes and even leaves.
Some of those leaves may seem familiar to us but it is not what you think, it is castor bean or ricino, in Spanish, ("ricinus comunis", according to the PlantNet app), but its shape and large size are curious and it is seen that in areas near the sea it is normal to find a profusion of said giant castor bean bushes, even if we get closer we see some little balls, I imagine that is where the famous oil is extracted from.
We continue walking on a bed of small stones and looking at the trees in the background, while we follow the marked path, now under the leafy crowns of some of those trees and with the sun above that always illuminates us.
Afterwards the terrain opens up again, the path is clearer but we continue covered by countless reeds, at some moments it almost seems that a tunnel is formed that we cross, and from time to time there is a tree, and we feel that we have gotten lost in the nature, a feeling of peace and disconnecting from everything.
But there are signs of life, of people passing by, there are fences built in a rudimentary way where they will have crops and also animals, paradoxically, in a river bed there is life, a lot of life but without the river water.
Then there are moments in which when looking around we can see a little further and we continue seeing reeds, an immense reed field that is sometimes now interspersed with some trees and palm trees, which could not be missing in these Mediterranean areas.
And behind the last palm trees we can already see more civilization, some buildings and some roads, from which even a car appears, it must belong to someone who has some land there that they have fenced off. While we step on the broken reeds on the road.
When we go out onto a paved road, we realize that we are still immersed in the amazing nature, because the reeds continue, the trees, bushes and plants continue, and also that resplendent sun that accompanies us. So among much green and golden coastal vegetation, we continue the road, enjoying the weather, the moment, the landscape, nature and life.
