the wild coat.

the same hike just two very different days.

I'm still not quite sure how my parents convinced me to go hiking two days in a row. On monday I woke up to my balcony windows being thrown open by the wind and rain was coming in. It rained all day monday, but my parents were determined to hike. We went to Port Lligat to go into the national park to explore. Since it was rainy and the dali house was closed we were the only people around. Walking to the mountain path are the slate rocks that act like a staircase to the mountain. It being so rainy only made the rocks really slippery. One wrong step and I would have been sliding down to the rocky coast. I was so concern with where I was stepping that when I finally looked up it was an amazing site. Even through it was raining the water was so peaceful and incredible shades of blue. We were able to get out pretty far on a ledge to look around and down at the coastline. The slate that makes up the coastline is crazy, it seems like it should be in the western united states not by the Mediterranean coast. The rain only made the natural colors of the water more vibrant. We hiked a little more up to the top of one mountains and had a great view overlooking everything. The one thing I really like about hiking is that the air is so clean and it smelled really good from all the mountain flowers. Coming down we sat on the beach and looked at these funny purple jellyfish that were lying eggs around the rocks. The night it only got more rainy and windy.
On tuesday the sun was out and it was a beautiful morning but it turned out to be an extremely windy day. So windy that trees were blown over the next day. My parent again wanted to go hiking up the same path that we did the day before. There were a lot more people wondering around but none were hiking- I think we were the only crazy ones that would hike in the winds. Going up the slate to the path I was worried that I would blow off we had to stay real close to the ground. The winds were so fierce that we couldn't go out and really see the ocean. We were able to get to the top of the mountain but I could lean back and put most of my weight in the wind. It was so damn cold though! I was expecting to be lying by the beach in the sun not hiking a mountain on the cold.