Sunday, September 20, 2026

19 September 2026 A Coruna: The Aquarium and the Sculpture Garden


We finished up our visit to this part of A Cotuna with a tour of the aquarium and the Sculpture garden.  The Aquarium was nice with indoor tanks, a seal enclosure outside and a underground area made to look like the Nautilus of Captain Nemo fame.  We particularly liked the sea horses and the sardine swarm tank.  In addition there was a gallery of award winning nature photos.  Then we drove on what may have been a limited access road to get to the sculpture garden.  No harm was done with our driving.  




A sculpture right in the front


Penguins!


A giraffe in a downstorm


A tiny weasel turns the table on a stork


A harpoon gun from the old days of whaling


A Roman dolphin


The langistino tank


The eel has emerged


Fish swarm


This ray is trying to get the attention of the keepers, it may be after feeding time


Rays


Sea horses


Cute cute cite


Birds!


This is the same rock with the waves splashing


Sweet little seal


Save Leslie! 


The bottom floor was decorated like Captain Nemo's Nautilus 


We saw a dozen flounders


A great layout


The sailboat is making some progress


Nemo!


Back over to the sculpture gardens


Some very unique pieces


A mini stone henge


This is what we saw over in the distance, 12 granite monoliths


A regatta is going on


Is this the harbor masters tower?


Little windows in these rock towers


15 feet tall for the tallest ones


You can see a person for scale on the right


Very intriguing, it is titled the Family of Merrnhirs 


Such a great clear day


A sailboat in the window


It is intended to look like a family with the taller spires as the parents and the smaller ones the children


A regatta in the distance


Megalithic


The sailboats are out


Great art


The smallest beach yet


Grasses




    It has been 4 years and 106 days since we began our Migration

19 September 2026 A Coruna: The Lighthouse of Hercules

 


We had some fun trying to pick up the car.  While Leslie was getting her hair cut I checked in online for the car.  The salon was next door and when she was done, we walked to the rental car location.  It was like a scavenger hunt, take a left from the rental office, pass the bus stop, go down the stairs and take a right, find the key box, show the QR code, put in the pin number and behold here are your keys!  The car is good and we promptly drove to the Tower of Hercules.  It is the oldest Roman lighthouse still in operation.  We brought a picnic lunch and ate on a bench looking out over the tower and the water.  It was a long ramp up to the tower and we took it slow.  My feet have been a little sore so I tried hard to walk only on the flat stones.  We passed a little kiosk that seemed out of place but paid little notice to it.  The ramp overlooked the rocky coast and we would stop periodically to "admire" the landscape while cooling down.  As we reached the tower we found out that they do not sell tickets at the tower.  Tickets can only be obtained online or at the kiosk on mile away.  We chose not to climb up to the top and instead walked along the coastal path to the east.  There was a sculpture garden off in the distance but we decided to put that off for another time.



We rented a car and were able to pick it up remotely.  Scan the QR code, type in the password and get the keys.  


Now comes the hard part, getting out of the parking spot


Had there been a car next to us it would have been impossible to get out


Standing on the shoulders of giants


Very deco lamp posts


A grotesque statue and important information about tickets


The light house is pretty far away


A sculpture at every turn


Sitting on a bench having our picnic and the birds all arrive to share our lunch if possible


A boat?


Zooming in


To see folks up on the top of the tower


Across the inlet we see what looks like a funicular 


the seagulls get their own park


Another mysterious sculpture


Up the ramp we go


The terrain os not stopping this man


The waves are all over this rock


Splash


A fox terrier!


The oldest Roman lighthouse still in operation


A fantastic day and great weather


Almost there


A huge compass 


A fine shade


Did a ship sink into the concrete?


Snails!


And more snails


A bronze militia man


A tiny brass dog is at his feet


Very detailed doors 


Scalping a giant!


Great detail


A shrimp shell of a hearing horn


The fox terrier reappears


More sculpture


Sailing on a fin Saturday


Intriguing....what might this be?


This guy does not know


The last sculpture




   It has been 4 years and 106 days since we began our Migration