In this Google Earth map I made of our finds, you can see the pieces to the west of the highway. Most pieces were found in a single olive grove which had not been plowed, virtually all other fields had been completely destroyed before we arrived. I shudder when I think of the thousands of tiny meteorite stones crushed under the rocks.

In this map, a closer version of the above map, you can see a single olive grove, which had for some reason not been plowed like all the others. We found almost all o our stones there by walking very slowly, in a grid pattern. It was very hard to find meteorites in the rocks there, and the olives on the ground made things more difficult. We gave our information for this location to several other meteorite hunters later, and several more stones were found in the area.

This is one of the famed windmills of La Mancha, an actual place cited in the classic novel by Miguel Cervantes  "The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha" published in 1605! This area is called the Don Quixote trail, where literary fans travel to see places mentioned in the book, and these windmills are actually in the book. Remember Don Quixote fighting the windmills on horseback? Well, here they are. There are several of them on this mountain and they overlook the Puerto Lápice strewnfield, standing as sentinels watching over the meteorites today.

Here is a view of the center of the strewnfield, a vineyard  between the olive grove where we found most of our pieces and looking to the north, at the mountain where we also found pieces. You can see the thousands of large fist-sized rocks, which were recently plowed and turned over before I arrived in the strewnfield. Imagine the thousands of meteorites lost forever in that mess.

A small stone I found in the olive grove, note how small it is, and how difficult to see this piece if you are standing up and walking. It is also the size, shape and color of the thousands of old olives rotting on the ground. I must have picked up a hundred a day to see if they were meteorites.

This cool photo shows an amazingly flight-oriented meteorite Robert Ward found and a large green praying mantis near the stone, as if contemplating a crunchy meal.... If I recall, the meteorite weighs less than 700 mg, smaller than the seeds you see beside it.

Hunting meteorites is not always miserable, Spain was without a doubt the best meteorite hunt I have ever been on, fun, successful, wonderful location, great people, no worries about robbery, prison, or angry locals, superb food and drink, and all the ripe grapes we could eat, red, green and black. I speak fluent Spanish, so it was a pleasure to work in such a fantastic environment. The landowners of the area we hunted were extremely busy with the grape harvest, so they told us to hunt all we wanted and take any meteorite we found. They had no time for meteorite hunting but they were happy we could save a few of them.

This is a small stone I found laying in the leaves under an olive tree.

The video above was created by the Spanish Meteor Network (SPMN) in Spain, they found many of the meteorites.

The video is a re-creation of the Asteroid Vesta, where the Eucrites originate from, and the fall of the meteorites using the actual strewnfield.

The Puerto Lápice meteorite hunt was my absolute favorite that I have ever done, I spent 10 amazing days in Spain this time, hunting freshly fallen Eucrites, it is hard to beat that. A couple of days from the end of our hunt, on 16 September, I woke up and checked my email before we began the day. I read the first reports of the meteorite fall in Carancas, Peru and while no one was sure at that time that it was a meteorite, little did we know that in one week we would all be in Peru hunting the crater-forming Carancas chondrite meteorite. Truly an amazing time in 2007, with so many major meteorite falls and with me going on major expeditions in Spain, Peru, and Colombia within days of each other.