cookieless, no-ads, no threats canyon exploring with Michele Angileri Bacu de Loi
The splendid Codula di Luna is among the main valleys of that part of Sardinia known as Supramonte. It is a wide limestone area. Rock is ancient and extraordinarily compact and white. There are so many pits and caverns, which drain all the water to the underground, leaving no flowing stream on the surface. Many deep rocky valleys and canyons cut the Supramonte, but water flows in them only in case of very heavy showers. The only settlements in this wide area are some isolated folds, far from the roads and now mostly abandoned. Supramonte is a harsh but majestically beautiful land. The main faults of Supramonte area are oriented north-south (as in the whole southeastern Sardinia). So main valleys, as Codula di Luna, develop parallelly to coastline. Codula di Luna flows in the widest among Supramonte's faults, so wide that granite rocks surface. Waters can flow on granite rock, without going to underground. So the first part of Codula di Luna and its tributaries have some permanent flow. Last part of Codula di Luna develops in limestones instead, and so it have usually no water flow. Its dry bed meanders at the bottom of a majestic canyon, till it reaches the sea. Its mouth is the famous splendid beach ofCala Luna. Bacu de Loi is a branch of Bacu de Salumina, the main among the tributaries of first part of Codula di Luna. It winds in a rocky sunny granite environment, with waterfalls and pools of emerald water.
  I remember ...I wrote this yet, many times in this website: building a team for canyon exploring is really hard.
In Bacu de Loi the sardinian canyoneer Guido Biavati joined the team Pucci-Angileri. He fitted very well in the team. We shared a good time-wasting: eating, joking,
fooling, talking, turning around in Supramonte.
Photos and video by Michele Angileri, Guido Biavati, Andrea Pucci Copyright © 2002- Michele Angileri. All rights reserved. |
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