The weather has cleared up fantastically, and we started out from Muxia under partly cloudy (not raining) skies. Before heading out of town we detoured to the end of the peninsula (which we hadn't managed to visit the previous evening). The church there, Nosa Senora de Barca, commemorates a visit by the Virgin Mary to this site, in a stone boat, to provide encouragement to Saint James when he was in the Iberian peninsula trying to win disciples for Christ in the very early AD years.
From Muxia, the camino heads down the coast toward Lires (and eventually, Finisterre). It was beautiful walking: sometimes along the coast, sometimes climbing over headlands, sometimes through forest or farm lands.
Shortly before arriving in Lires, we ran into our new friends Vern and Nancy from Gasquet, whom we met along the Camino Frances a few days before arriving in Santiago. They were going the opposite direction, toward Muxia, for their end point.
We arrived in our destination for the day, the small town of Lires, in time for our mid-day meal. It's a beautiful place, built on the side of a hill just a kilometer or so from the ocean. We had a great meal and room in a small inn in town.
In the early evening we walked down to where the river runs into the ocean.
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