When David’s tag resumed transmissions yesterday afternoon (Wednesday 17 April) we were delighted to see that he had completed his desert crossing and was in Extremadura, Spain! He has stopped in an area of open olive woodland, about 27km (17 miles) due N of the town of Cáceres.
David had travelled an additional 1885km (1171 miles)slightly east of due N since he was in the Mauritania desert two days previously. He appears to have taken the short route across the desert, west of the High Atlas and along the Moroccan coast, as we had thought he and BB might do. We don’t know why he had stopped in the desert at the time of the last transmissions, but we guess that it may have been due to adverse conditions, possibly wind or dust-related.
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