Tuesday 15th March 2011

Woke up to a lovely sunny morning, had breakfast outside and had a quick chat with another camper Dave who we had met at the Quarteira, he was off for a bike ride. Not long afterwards just as we were thinking of going out for a walk the sky turned black and it poured it down for about two hours we saw Dave return looking very wet! Once it had gone over the sun came out and it was a lovely day again, so we set off for a walk.

We made our way to the coast which was spectacular, very rugged, and found a place where we had lunch overlooking the Atlantic, it was great. Then we walked further along the coast and came to a small cove with a lovely beach. Unfortunately only accessible via a very steep set of steps, without any hand rails etc! We made our way down in amongst the young surfers who were coming up or going down carrying their boards. We had enough trouble on our own! But it was worth it the beach was secluded and had great sand. There were a number of surfers there and two or three hardy souls in swimming! The water was a bit too chilly for us!

Late afternoon Paul and Tracy came round and we caught up with their travels, they have been doing a lot of wild camping and have stayed in some fabulous places sometimes overlooking the beach. It was great to catch up!