Day 9 - On the road

Not everything along our route was beautiful and inviting. This appeared to be some sort of transmission tower. Whatever it was it certainly spoiled the landscape.
As we walked, we passed through numerous small ports like this.
Each port had a small fleet of fishing boats. I do not know what they went out for, but these boats have a very strange shaped circular object on the end of a short mast. They may have been antennas of some sort, or another idea that I had was that they were hung down into the water and were either sensors of some sort or maybe put out an electric charge to help with the fishing.
Most of the ports were in fairly large but well sheltered bays.
Maybe every other port had a boat yard like the above, where the boats could be hauled out of the water and repaired. The fishing ports were the only places that even a semblance of dynamic economic activity. The whole area was obviously feeling, and strongly, the effects of the economic turn down.

This part of the Henro Trail contrasted nicely with the mountain paths. I enjoyed this part very much, even though the weather was overcast. My aches and pains were getting better and my inner voice was continuing to quiet down. Also life was becoming very simple and all the stresses and cares and worries of every day life were fading away.