Day 8 Thursday 24/09/09

MC and EP continued to drive to Algeciras to check out the ferry crossings to Morocco. Hot weather for a stunning drive through the mountains to the coast. Arrived at the port of Algeciras and asked at a couple of ticket offices for paperwork requirements for entering Morocco. We were told that only the green card was needed (no V5), so JC could get in on what docs. he had. A text was sent to JC to arrange to meet up the next day for a crossing to Morocco.

Whilst waiting for a reply we headed onto Gibraltar as it was so close, for a trip back to GB. The roads on Gib are narrow and the Land Rover is not the best "town car" for these roads. EP wanted to visit the show cave and Great Siege tunnel and see the apes and as it was 4:30 already, we headed straight for the top of the rock. St Michaels cave is very well decorated and you can wander round round on your own which made a refreshing change not to have the standard show cave guide commentary. It has a stage and auditorium in the cave which also was planned to be used as a field hospital in WW2, if needed (which it wasn't). We drove across to the Great Siege Tunnels which were mined out of the Limestone in the early 1700's for cannon placements. Outside the tunnels were plenty of apes with tourists photographing them. EP amost filled a memory card on the camera with monkey shots.

Heading back into Spain and San Roque there were no campsites to be found so we decided to try out the back of the Land Rover for the first time on this trip.