GIBRALTAR

THE VIEW

This "island" is 3 miles long and 1/2 mile wide. It is home to 30,000 plus (humans) and 250 plus Barbary Apes.

ALL of the fresh water on Gibraltar is obtained from desalinization. And expensive process, but it assures Gibraltar's continued independance from Spain (still hotly contended). This picture below is the watershed "field" (actually, the west slope) which is being dismantled because it did not supply the total needs of the inhabitants of the "Rock".

The Port of Algeciras across the bay.

Looking north from inside the tunnels towards La Linea. The Gibraltar airstrip extends east to west and unofficially defines the border (which is just 100 yards further north.

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