We were lucky once again - the weather for our trip to the eastern Algarve couldn't have been better. The cloudless sky with temperatures in the mid 20's that we had had on the two previous days continued on Saturday - definitely shorts and t-shirt weather.
We went to some places that we have been to before but saw both familiar and different parts of them and heard different stories.
We drove east from Albufeira about 35 Km to
Faro - the largest city and the capital of the regional municipality of the Algarve. We stayed for about 2 hours there then went on to the beautiful town of
Olhāo where we went to the busy market and had lunch, after which Irie took us on a walk around the maze of the old town streets.
From Olhāo we went to the tiny fishing village of
Santa Luzia where I got some photos of several colourful Portuguese fishing boats and then eastward to the town of
Tavira where we spent about an hours and a half, had drinks.
Then to an area of the Ria Formosa, a protected lagoon area which extends from near Faro to beyond Tavira. One of the commercial activities allowed in the Ria Formosa is the harvesting of salt - we went by several of the salt harvesting "beds" . I would like to have stopped there but it was getting late so, unfortunately, we didn't stop. We went on to an area called Rato - I think but need to check on this name - of very flat land interspersed with bits of ocean water at low tide. The sun was setting and because it was the day of the full and very large moon I was able to get some very nice sunset and moon rise photos - what a spectacular way to end a spectacular day!
So in this blog are a few photos of the sunset and moonrise at the end of the trip. I didn't have a tripod so these photos of the moon were taken hand held in very low light conditions so placement of the moon is not consistent and they are not in focus.
More photos and stories about the rest of the trip in the next posts.
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