
For beachgoers on Playa Granada, the rescue drama as it unrolled might have seemed like the real thing, but it was just a drill – an important one – but a drill nevertheless.
Friday was a choppy sea-state day in Nerja but despite a red flag flying people went out on the sea, anyway around the Balcón de Europa.
A woman, who probably fancied herself as Boadecia on a war chariot, rocketed across the water off Playa La Araña on a jet-ski, armed with ambition but lacking experience or a licence.
Thirty jet-ski riders competed in the Motril-Melilla race. Some had come from as far as Portugal and Italy to take part in this now annual Motril event.