Melilla Warnings Or Dangers

The beach shown in Mcbride's photo looks very much like after a levanter storm where lots of flotsam washes in from Nador(Mcbride's home town!). In the season the beach is swept EVERY morning and any rubbish sieved from the sea by a special boat.
The photo shows the breakwater 100m from McBride's photo and displays what a levanter storm is like. The beach even in winter is cleaned very quickly after such ferocious weather.

When you go out, be prepared to step in 1kg of dog *** (left by a poodle dragged by a woman caked in make up (at 7am). You will be assaulted by the smell of putrifying rubbish, spilt on the street by men looking for plastic water bottles, anything that can be sold or just somthing to eat. Car drivers (usually in Miitsibushi Satsuma,or what-ever, 4 tonne jeeps (with bull bars - in case they hit a cow whilst driving home, drunk). The `Rio del Ouro´ is a sight to behold. River of *** would be a better name as it is full of rusting fridges, bedframes and other detritus that the Spanish blame the Moroccans for dumping (even though there is a fence blocking the border where the river runs)

When I walked the final stretch from Beni Anzar (Morocco) to Melilla, there were a long line, actually crowd, of Moroccans trying to get across the border. I am not certain whether there is a quota or just delays for Moroccans. In any case, a kind Spanish border guard saw me (maybe concluded that I was not Moroccan) and escorted me around the crowd and directed me to the customs window.

It is possible that non-Moroccans do not have to face the same obstacles. So cut in line and see if they will allow you to pass in front.