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I walked from Caldas de Reis to Padron today, and kept hearing booming sounds. It sounded like cannons going off in the hills around us. And now that I’m in Padron I’m hearing them again. Any idea what these are?
 
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I walked from Caldas de Reis to Padron today, and kept hearing booming sounds. It sounded like cannons going off in the hills around us. And now that I’m in Padron I’m hearing them again. Any idea what these are?


Could be hail cannons.
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They use it here too in the local orchards. Not much scientific evidence they actually work btw.

 
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I walked from Caldas de Reis to Padron today, and kept hearing booming sounds. It sounded like cannons going off in the hills around us. And now that I’m in Padron I’m hearing them again. Any idea what these are?
Yes I heard them too walking into Padron!
 
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Agreed. These are likely air cannons, which fire off randomly to scare birds away from vineyards. We have them in the Niagara wine region of Canada, and they do a great job of interrupting one's golf back swing ... 🙄
Lame excuse for slicing the drive!
 
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Agreed. These are likely air cannons, which fire off randomly to scare birds away from vineyards. We have them in the Niagara wine region of Canada, and they do a great job of interrupting one's golf back swing ... 🙄

Yes, to scare birds and in Galicia also wild boars.
 
lol yep had the same experience, made me hit the dirt, I was just back from the desert. Just so unexpected.
 
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Once I kept hearing gunshots. But when I got to the next village I discovered that it was the feast day of St. Isodore, the farmer, and the villagers were shooting fireworks all the day long. I also was invited to a community feast where pilgrims were the guests of honor that day. God is great!
 
In early July of 2022 I heard loud booms near Rio Mendo on the Camino Ingles. There was a festival going on at a church that I was passing but I was also walking near fields and vineyards. My first thought was that Putin had expanded his recently begun invasion of the Ukraine! No one I saw seemed particularly alarmed.
 
I walked from Caldas de Reis to Padron today, and kept hearing booming sounds. It sounded like cannons going off in the hills around us. And now that I’m in Padron I’m hearing them again. Any idea what these are?
Ahhh, yes - it is hunting season or wabbit season🤣 It's alright and the hunters are very well aware of Pilgrims and their way.
 
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