Camino Photo of the Day: Irrigation

I‘m not sure what possessed me to take this photo of a well and irrigation system in La Rioja. They are ubiquitous throughout the eastern parts of La Rioja and throughout Castilla, and they are not small – that’s my hiking pole you see leaning against it for scale. The reason I’m posting it is this: in a week or so, the rains would be so hard that most of these irrigation systems would be completely under water. You can see the storm starting, but this is just a timid harbinger of what is to come.

Date: 08 April 2016
Place: Between Nájera and Azofra (La Rioja, Spain)

Here’s a pair of maps of the day, as we walk from Navarrete to Azofra:

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