After the amazing murals of
Orgósolo, Camping Selema very quickly took us back into the beach zone. The
site had advertised its own access to the nearby beach, but recent heavy rains
had allowed the nearby river estuary to divert from its usual course and
provide an entertaining aquatic obstacle to the beach and the sea!
We nearly didn’t stay here,
but the combination of a lovely woodland shaded pitch amongst the trees, a good
pool, and a very relaxed atmosphere (aided no doubt by the ‘pitch where you
want’ regime) meant we ended up staying for four nights!
The site also attracted a
variety of interesting campers, including this gravity defying ‘Stingray’ tent…
…and this rooftop tent on a
VW camper – the biggest roof tent we’ve seen so far!
We didn’t let the water
obstacle get in our way, and we enjoyed a variety of walks that included
watching some dramatic kitesurfing…
…some very large driftwood…
…the lovely village of Santa
Lucia, with its own nearby beach, touching mural and watch tower…
…the idiosyncratic lido on
its very narrow spit of sand from the other campsite in town…
…and just before we left, as
if to say its farewells and following a windy night, a visit by our chum
Posidonia that changed the beach and its pristine vibe entirely, almost
obliterating the mini-lido…
We’d heard that the reason
that the weed is left on the beach is part of an environmental approach that
celebrates Posidonia’s part in the life-cycle of Sardinian beaches, and even
that it was illegal to remove it. Now, call us cynical, but we thought that
this reason might have had just a little bit of fabrication to it and that
no-one could really be bothered, given Italy’s approach to ‘privatised’ beaches
– until we saw this sign!
One of the unexpected
outcomes of the ‘pitch where you like’ regime, was that we got to meet a lovely
and very well travelled British couple, Geraldine and Steve, who, arriving when
there was little free space on the site for their larger camper, asked if they
could park in near us. As you can see in the pic below, it’s just as well we
all got on with each other!
We had some great chats with
them, and picked up many useful travel tips as we listened to their tales of
global travel. Safe travels both!
It was at this site that we
came across the most bizarre camping behaviour we’ve ever encountered, which we
ended up calling the ‘poo monster’ – suffice to say that Mr B learnt how to say,
in Italian, someone’s had a poop the shower! And the poor staff confirmed that
this was the fourth time that week. We’ve encountered some very odd campsite
behaviour on our travels but that is definitely the weirdest!
We could have easily stayed
at Selema longer, even with the Posidonia, but we wanted to get over to the
north west coast near Porto Torres for our final night on Sardinia before the
0700 ferry to Toulon, and we’d eventually run out of days!
S&J
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