Between sandbanks and natural reserves
Regina
Espen Aalstad
Fri 5 Oct 2007 23:25
37:00.2N 7:49.12W
At anchor just outside Faro and just inside the
long sand islands hugging the coast. We spend two nights and could
have stayed a week....only a few sailboats and the birds. Wonderful to be out of
the big marinas - and weekend means no school also for us. Our only
neighbour the first night is a deserted boat ; we speculate in his fate,
especially when we also find a deserted dinghy on the beach.The white sand
island Ihla de Barreta is a natural reserve only accessible by ferry; its
popular beach now only with a handfull of people. We find the most incredible
shells and collect as souvenir and for decoration. Faro is only accessible by
dinghy: we skip it not feeling like commercial today.
Olhao can be reached up a dredged (NARROW) channel
for fresh food. Turns out marina is very private and we are stuck behind
security gates...
Erna explores the big local fish market and we have
a tasty black fish for lunch once out by another sand island.
This
low waterland and a natural reserve changes with the tide: the
sandbanks comes up or disappear. Beaches gets 3 meter longer at low
tide and the sand bubbles with air and "crawls" with small sea
creatures. Local fishermen (and wives) come at low tide to suck up schrimp
for bait. Magnus and Einar picks "eremitt kreps" in the evening. On the
beach, the sailors meet up at what we thought as a homeless place. Turns out it
is a BBQ and meeting place pulled together of whatever the sea has washed
ashore.
In the morning, we discover how the the high
tide creeps up inside the island creating a small stream. The
incredible sand and dunes makes us remember the desert of Oman...Surely we will
also remember this place.
Einar trying to sell his new shell
collection
Explorers. Behind is a small sand island just these
houses.
The Atlantic ocean is "controled" also here with a
Norwegian invention: special stones.
The Atlantic ocean is "controled" also here with
Norwegian invention: special stones.
The "desert" stream created in high
tide
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