In the last post I left off that I was in Algeciras, Spain. We were only there really to be close to Gibraltar. Now Gibraltar is known for the Straight of Gibraltar, which is the entry into the Mediterranean sea from the Atlantic ocean. Anyways Gibraltar is just this HUGE rock where everything is built on top of...
It also belongs to the British after they took it from the Spanish a while back....
Spain is still pretty mad about it. After passing through the border and customs we were in....
So this place is so small BUT it has a full length runway for planes to land on it! However the main road runs right smack through the middle of the runway.....
So when a plane is coming to land they stop traffic on either side and let the plane land. Then they let it go after the plane is at the terminal....
That is the runway there as we are crossing it.The quickest way up the rock is via cable car.....
So of course you know that is what we are taking to the top. After buying our tickets and waiting for a huge group of teenagers om a field trip to go, we headed in and up. Now there are two reasons to go to the top of the rock. The first is for the view, which is pretty amazing. You can see across the straight and see Morocco, and also get a great view of spain. It is REALLY windy up there being that it is right on the water so you get all of the crazy sea breeze.....
Anyways the other reason you go up the rock of Gibraltar is to see the Macaque monkeys. They are pronounced "Muh - Kack." They are the main draw. They have lived on the rock especially at the top for 300 or so years. They are so used to people that you can walk right up to them and stick a camera in their face and they do not mind. They also tell you not to feed or eat food around them because they love to steal the food right out of your hand. After I first got up I started to take pictures with my camera.....
After walking around the top a bit we headed towards the other side and watched as a monkey was dragging a kids backpack along the road as the kid screamed at it. Now this is one of the only times I did not have my camera running unfortunately. However I did get a picture of the monkey pulling his bag. The monkey kept pulling at as he tried to open the bag with his fingers to get at the food inside. The teacher finally ran up and scared the monkey off the kids bag. But after they got the bag back on his back and started walking up the hill, another monkey jumped onto one of the girls backs that the kid was walking with trying to get her bag off of her. All I had handy was my camera and I got just a picture.... 
However after that I quickly pulled out my video camera, and hilarity ensued.But before the videos there were a few pictures.....
Oh and if you know me well, which most of the people that read this, then you know that I do not follow the rules very well and that I love to stir up shit. So you can imagine that this sign....
Did absolutely nothing to stop me from doing this.....
Especially when you make friends like this......
And then have staring contests like this.....
But anyways some videos I took which really capture the fun I had.
The first video is of me taping a mother cleaning her babies fur. I was just shocked at how close I could get to these monkeys literally 6 inches from their faces and they did not mind at all. So as I am watching this cleaning take place, the mother just rips ass.....Take a watch....
Then things started to get interesting. The next video shows a monkey not letting people pass and then getting very upset and chasing me because I was getting too close to her baby....As you can see I ran away quite quickly......
Now the monkeys are not afraid of people at all and will steal food right out of your hand. A little boy learned the hard way as his Pringles were stolen out of his hands. Unfortunately I did not get the theft taking place but I got shortly after. As the monkey munches on his new prize, his buddy does not like me taping too close. Then out of nowhere a bigger monkey swoops in and takes the Pringles from the smaller monkey.....
As we walked away from the center, a fight had broken out. Two monkeys had attacked a rival monkey that had wandered into their territory. I of course egged them on and ran closer to get a better look.....
Next I broke both rules, I touched and fed the monkeys. Then almost got into a fight with one. I gave one monkey the remainder of my sandwich in the container and when he was not looking tried to grab it back. Then one monkey doesn't like me getting to close and keeps acting like he was going to attack me. And finally he gets really pissed and takes his baby away after I touch the baby......
Then a car came down the road and the monkey would not move. Then he jumped up on the car and took a piss.....
And that folks was basically my day in Gibraltar. We had lunch after that, then crossed right back into Spain to our hotel. That night we relaxed and had some local fare for dinner again. The next day we were headed to Morocco!!
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