"Long Weekend" Sicily 4---walks "Torre Salsa"

Not sure how many times we visited Torre Salsa. First, I didn't realise how big the place was. Whole nature reserve was bought buy WWF to protect the nature and tortoise coming to the shore and drop eggs. It was beautiful beach. I would love to go there again for our beach holiday! Remember, this is not a nudist beach. Actually it's very accessible to get to this beach from the camp site run by a German lady( I think she's not German to be precise). www.torresalsa.it. On this website, wonderfully well organised, it explains a lot about the place. And she reminds you it's (Torre Salsa) NOT nudist beach. I don't go to a nudist beach (apart from Greece and La Gomera), but, I think it would be wonderful to be naked in the beach... It had white cliff(rock), can you imagine lying on it in naked sun shining on you! (do it not very hot day...  :->) Arrr, wonderful.....

First, we tried to get into Torre salsa from on our way to this camp site. There was left turning. It was fairly sunny day. We heard a lot from people on the tripadviser site and Maurizio and Ivana (our landlords) the road there was rough and "bad". How rough and how "bad"? We needed to find out. So, We parked our car and started walking. Soon, we saw how "bad" the path was. It was really wet, marsh land. Our shoes were getting heavy... After 1 hour or even less, we decided we couldn't go any further, so, gave up. We found a little castle?, had rest there. 

It was dry land to start off with, then quickly turned into a wet land!

This is what it looks like when we were there. We had lots of rain, probably 7 days out of 10 days rained. Apparently, it was very unusual for Sicily climate in the season... Or maybe we brought rain with us from the sunny England! ☹☹☹

In this photo, Marcus is looking at the ruined castle. There was a tower on the top. We climbed up there and had 5 mins sit down. Very quiet. All we could hear was birds of prey were circling in the big sky. Then I felt maybe ancient(or medieval) people were doing the same, looking at the birds in the same sky... Wow! How romantic!

After that, we now really wanted to get into the Torre Salsa. So we drove off to the campsite. Only 5 mins or less away from where we were. We asked the lady if we could go for a walk on the beach. We paid €3 each to get in as a day visiter. It was well worth spending. Also, it was very nice site. Suitable for families. They had different walking courses, and does Nordic walking too. How fun! 

We drove right down to the beach. It was beautiful.

We walked on the beach. Sat down on the rock and had our snack(again!).  It was like a deserted beach, no-one around. Only me and Marcus. How cool is that? We found a huge crystal rock!

Suddenly I became a hippy to hug the rock!

And Marcus pretended he was meditating!

All fun!

Arrr, lovely Torre Salsa.....

Following day, we went back to Torre Salsa again. there were a few different way in to the nature reserve. This time we tried to get in from "Ingresso Cannicella" after drove passed WWF centre.

We parked our car after 30m after this sign . We just followed the path, thinking not far to go. I was wrong! We walked probably 4 hours in total at least. We walked the middle of nowhere, no-one around. It wasn't difficult path, just followed it, and took us to cute picnic area with beach under. The path reminded us Greece. Of course, path was a bit rough and really wet. 

Every now again, it rained. Birds of prey were hovering on the huge grey sky, looked awesome! We carried on walking, in the end, it took us to the side of the WWF centre. From there, we even more carried on walking the olive grow, thinking following the foot path. But the foot path was nowhere to be seen. We ended up walking down by the side of main road under neath the huge bridge. Then, we tress passed the somone's field, went on to the asphalt road. Eventually we got back to the car. We thought we took a shortcut.... I was a bit grumpy then.

Oh, by the way, the beach was cute. Again, it was peaceful, deserted beach.

This footpath looked like starting from next to the WWF centre. This sign actually showing you to go to where we just came from. Anyhow, it doesn't matter, does it, as long as enjoy the walks with beautiful scenery....I guess....