An elderly lady I met there told me that although she had never seen it, the beach went out past the wharf which nowadays is a sort of square surrounded by sea. Today, there are few square metres of shingle and sand where small boats are beached.

Now the Town Hall wants to do something about it and in collaboration with Costas (also known as Mordor) and the Agencia Pública de Puertos Andaluces, intends to get La Caleta’s beach back. At the moment the Environmental Impact Study is progressing nicely.

The way this can be done is to do away with the seawall that runs in front of the old sugar factory and turn it into a breakwater that will trap shifting sand and regenerate the beach naturally.

Now, in the waters off the sugar factor is an endangered species of shellfish, such as patella ferruginea, which is a sort of limpet. Therefore the project has to take them into consideration. In fact, they will have to remove them from the seawall boulders and ‘resettle them’ elsewhere. Actually, they won’t be prised off the surface of the boulders but a layer of rock on which they are anchored will be separated from the boulder.

(News: Salobrena, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)