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Puerto De Mazarrόn (day 104) The Big Guns of Cabo Tinoso
We travelled further up the coast to Mazarron and camped wild on an unfinished urbanisation, we had stayed here before and knew it would be ok. In the morning we made our way to Cabo Tinoso right on the tip of the peninsular, too a turn of the century gun emplacement; we had been told about by another traveller. The guns were installed to defend the harbour of Cartagena against invaders, the road is very narrow but there are places to pass, so we made it to the National Parc and parked outside the car park, because it was too tight to get unless you own a Smart car ??? (amazing what European funding can do). The journey was well worth the drive up those scary roads. On arrival we were presented with an impressive sight of these great 15 inch guns pointing menacingly out to sea, they were manufactured at Vickers of Barrow in Furness around 1918, and were last fired in 1973. Definitely worth the crazy drive.
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