Aviation A balloon flight over El Hondo Nature reserve

[Unframed Dave]

Not great Photos, due to early morning Haze and a large number of bonfires in the area. Interestingly, we saw the fire service called out to a massive field fire near Benijofar a couple of days later.

• ILCE-1
• FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
• 24.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/2000 sec
• ISO 500

You can see the massive Salinas near Santa Pola in this shot.

• ILCE-1
• FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
• 43.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/2000 sec
• ISO 320

• ILCE-1
• FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
• 24.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/1250 sec
• ISO 400

• ILCE-1
• FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
• 24.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/800 sec
• ISO 400

This Picture shows the extent of the reserve.

The Yellow line shows the North Side of the Reserve which is only open on Saturday mornings, with prior booking.

The red line is the public reserve.

The purple arrow shows the North side Gate.

The blue arrow points to the North side tower hide at the furthest point from the gate.

The green arrow points to the public side visitor center.

All approximate.

• ILCE-1
• ISO 320

This is the public side of the reserve, showing the hides, boardwalk and visitors center.

• ILCE-1
• FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
• 32.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/400 sec
• ISO 320