We get a few very windy storms down here from time to time that do blow a few of the smaller displays down, however some of the bigger stones are very heavy as I found out when trying to put one back into place, as I failed! Although I am pretty fit for my age this particular one was probably near on 1cwt, and although I could pick it off the ground there was no way I could lift it up onto where it had been originally !!
Incidentally the opening shot on that film was done in one continuous take in camera. It took about 3 trial shots to get it "sort of right" as the big hotel is a long way down the beach.

Down here 20 years ago a new hotel was started and almost finished being built but was declared illegal and has just been left !
It was built on what we would call "green belt land" and was obviously done with a few "backhanders" !! and of course it was built overnight so nobody saw it being built !!
Further along the beach people just started to put a few rocks on top of one another for a bit of fun a few years back and others just keep adding to it, including Sue an Me.
https://youtu.be/A_FrDeu7hlE

There is a large concrete tank up near the perimeter of the land that had a locked lid on it, and I assumed that was the source of the water. I couldn't see any wells anywhere but they could have been blocked off and overgrown, however the Spanish are not know for being "ultra safe" and would just have left it to it's own devices !
I would think that where it is situated with access from roads they could easily have had water delivered as even now you can see water tankers around the area that fill up water tanks and swimming pools.
I would think that the buildings were put up in the last 50 years as the nearest approach road and nearest urbanization to the track was only built in the early 70s and were of a more modern Spanish design.
As for sewage waste that's anyone's guess ? but as I said it is very overgrown and a large amount of area that we didn't look over.

We often go for walks up in the hills and often find things like this. I have no idea who would have lived there, or how long ago ? I suppose it could have been a smallholding as there are a lot of goat/sheep skulls laying around. It had electricity and running water and obviously cost a fair bit to build as it had those main gates to the entrance. Could have even been a villain from the 60s/70s as it's well out of the way https://youtu.be/DvcJtVjWmqA

The main participants are English but also other Europeans, however a good majority are actual full time retired residents because of the life style and weather and the majority of all the people tend to speak in English regardless of their nationality !
You may have noticed that right at the beginning a lot of people were wearing jackets and warm clothing as it was a "chilly" 16c before the sun came out of the clouds and the temp reached 25c and the sea was 16c.
We have been here on and off for over 50 years in all months and in the winter the temp drops by 10c directly the sun disappears behind the hills.
We tend to spend 6 months in Spain 5 to 6 weeks at a time but very rarely go in July/Aug because it is too crowded and can reach 50c !.    After "Brexit" UK passport holders are limited to the 90/180 rule but  we are lucky in that Sue has an Irish (EU) passport that gives her and me a lot more freedom.

The warmer weather in the UK has woken one of our Bank Voles in the garden, this is 40 seconds of it grabbing as much food as possible to put in it's larder ! My wife is never unhappy even in bad weather !!
https://youtu.be/ZVKdwAJe0Bk

Hi Albert, my wife will do the (easy bit) swimming in the nice cool water and use my waterproof GoPro, while I will do the (difficult) filming from the warm beach !!
I have filmed this event for several years except this year as we had a death in the family just before Christmas last year and everything came to a halt.
It is a brilliant event that a lot of people partake in that are sponsored for a local animal charity. I shall be sponsoring Sue and an old friend of mine who at 80 years of age is driving down from his home in France to stop with us for a few days.
Regarding walking in the hills, we will only do it at the end of October onwards as the day temps are normally starting to drop into the high to low 20s, whereas in June/July/ August and even September it can be in the high 30s. Saying that we did have one Christmas day where it was 35c! and last Thursday it was 28c so you never know. One thing is that directly the sun drops below the hills behind us the temp drops 10c almost immediately !

The book that I have about Eddie tells stories about a lot of the films that he was involved in, and I think that "Crossed Swords" is mentioned ? I'll have a look when I go back in a few days as it is in the UK. It's an interesting book and obviously tells what sort of things he had to do before the "computer age" came in and put a stop to most of it. Now we all expect totally amazing things in films that are made with Graphic Imaging by someone sitting at a desk.   I may have mentioned that I know a guy that lives close to me in the UK (Tim Porter on Wiki) who is one of the main editors in the "Games of Thrones" series and this is yours truly holding one of his "Emmy's"

They may look brown as this is on the edge of the Tabernas desert, however amazingly stuff still grows there, also there is a forest further up in the mountains.
However there is a SERIOUS water shortage as we have had very little rain for the whole year and several of the big lakes and reservoirs have actually dried up ! luckily we get our supply from the desalinizing plant at Carboneras that is the next big town down the coast. Incidentally David Lean's prop master Eddie Fowlie lived there and ran a hotel until he died a few years back. I have a signed book of his exploits and a lot of Lawrence of Arabia was actually filmed just down the road, and there is a memorial statue of Eddie in the high street. 
The zoom is very good on the Sony camera and I was using it hand held all day. Believe it or not I converted the 4k to 1080p mp4 with Moviplus X6 ! You have to do it in single short takes as there is not enough memory to do a long timed shot or a complete batch. You can do it in VLC media player but it is nowhere near the quality of Movieplus, also the free online ones weren't as good either, but they could all do batches.

Eric I do like that video, well thought about and edited.

Sorry that I haven't been on here for a while, however when we came back from Spain I found that the weather back in the UK was appalling and wondered why we had bothered !
I was sitting at home and looking out of the window at the pouring rain and happened to look at the price of flights to Almeria back in early November and found a couple of return tickets for £35 each !! yes £35 !! so it was a no brainer. We flew down on the19th of November and will be back on the 14th Dec only to fly back down on the 31st. 
I haven't been doing much in the video world but we are often going for what I call "a lost drive" in our area in Spain. This one starts up in the hills and mountains a few miles inland from our coastal home and finishes in Sorbas in the evening and shows a lot the amazing family run pottery that has to be seen to be believed !
One slight problem that I did have is I foolishly left my camera on 4K for all of the mountain scenery on the first part of the video and only realized it when we got to a small hamlet to film the tiny church.
As I haven't got any 4K editing software on this laptop that I use down here I had to convert it to 1080p to edit it, but it wasn't "that successful".
That's my excuse anyway !
https://youtu.be/-zxCxDxMTHA