While we’ve been taking Daisy for a walk on the beach, we’ve started collecting sea glass, shards of ceramics and other bits and pieces.
Ian found an old oar the other day that had got washed up after a storm – and we have a growing collection of driftwood!
We’re find different things on different beaches. The beach where we take Daisy in San Cibrao (mermaid town), is by far the best for glass.
It’s pretty cool to go to the supermarket and then nip onto the beach for a bit of glass collecting!
Beaches Towards Foz
On Saturday we went to Foz, Christmas shopping. We stopped off at a few beaches on the way to take a look. There are some pretty nice beaches along that stretch – some surfing beaches, a famous beach called as Catedrals – and we found a pebble beach – the first we’ve seen.
Talking of Christmas shopping, we don’t really know what happens here regarding Christmas. I do believe it’s a shepherd from the hills who brings the gifts, but I don’t know when or if that is the case here (I think that’s more Asturias). I suspect it will be the same as Extremadura with Christmas Day being pretty low key. In fact, we went to the supermarket about 3pm Saturday afternoon and it was EMPTY (of people – not of stock!) – so I imagine it will be a different case the week before 3 Kings (or whoever).
This may be the case everywhere now, but I haven’t seen it before – smoking isn’t allowed on any beaches.
Early Morning Walk
And we went to another beach this morning! This one is the other side of the aluminium plant in San Cibrao (mermaid town). And between the Aluminium plant and the fishing port we went to last week.
This really is a lovely beach – the sun is rising over the aluminium plant, so it has a bit of an industrial feel one way and to the other there’s another small fishing port. It looks a really nice place for a picnic as I imagine there’s a lot of activity to watch. We see the big ships going towards the aluminium plant and we know there are little tugs which we guess pull the ships around in the harbour – but I think we’d be able to see that from this beach, so we’ll definitely be keeping an eye open.
Sadly, though, the lovely clean white sand was just that – all sand and nothing to collect!
Rainbow Over the House
