Excursion to Puerto Santa Maria
We decided to go to the last beach in the city of Cadiz, passed Playa Victoria to an area called Corta Dura on Friday after napping. The beach was packed all the way from Plaza Caleta onward. But we found a place with ease and as we entered the seaweed filled water, we felt a noticeable rise in temp from the other day. Levante is leaving and poniente coming. This morning, a heavy layer of fog has chilled the city.
On Saturday, we took a ferry to Puerto Santa Maria where a native had told us it is lovely to eat fresh fish at the restaurants along the water. A colleague had warned that there is nothing worth mentioning this place. So we weighed the two and decided to go anyway. We took the 30-minute ferry and strolled through the unremarkable town, looking for a place to chill and have one of those ice cold cañas.
Then we strolled some more, coming across an ancient church with a wedding going on. The height of the heels here in Spain is gnarly – not to mention this is on cobblestone streets in most cases. Frightening.
We found the sunny beach after clearing a pine forest and an oasis of palms to give us shade, only you know who would have none of the shade.
We did find a nice restaurant by the water to have fresh fish and ate grilled Dorada, shellfish, crisp lettuce and tomatoes and fried choko (squid). Very nice.
But we returned home weary and although we were thankful for the day, in the end our advice would be to forgo Puerto Santa Maria and just head down to a nice plaza here in Cadiz and enjoy the day.