John and I needed a sea legs break so we decided to get into a port, leave Jay Sea Dee, rent a car, and head out. We started in St. Maria Navaresse on the East coast half way down and got to Cala Gonone. It doesn’t look very far on the map but we went through the Golfo Orosei National Park and the roads were very curvy. 
As you can see we also had to deal with “Free Range” cattle and Sardinians in the roads…part of the fun I guess. The country is very rugged and has cliffs and valleys like the Grand Canyon.
We stopped at a Nuragich Site. A Nuraghe is a stone tower made without mortar by aligning heavy blocks in circles of diminishing circumference so that they form a truncated dome that supports its own weight. This comes from the BC time frame. John and I were given a map of the village which spreads over a mile or more. We made one wrong turn and ended up hiking twice that distance over sharp lava rocks and in 30 degree celcius heat with NO WATER…BIG MISTAKE.
The scenery is fantastic!
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