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Ian decided it was time to give the windows a clean when we couldn’t work out if it was a mist we could see or smudges on the windows! We’ve had a few sea mists recently and it’s quite interesting…

We have just had or are having the lowest low tides and highest high tides for 19 years! We went to Rueta beach (‘our’ beach at the end of the road) to see the low tide, and it was very…

Snails are much more active here than the snails in Extremadura who just used to hang round in clumps waiting to be harvested. Snails were also a very common meal there, and I don’t think so much here. We’d see…

And saw this huge ship on the horizon! The shipping lane is on the horizon so we quite often see the silhouettes of large ships, but nothing quite this big. Looked at our boat app and it was a cruise…

Occasionally, we see a cluster of fishing boats together. We see them most at night. I’m not sure if that’s because they are easier to see at night or if the particular type of fish they are after are more…

Well, I don’t know! It definately is a type of quartz, I think, and I can’t imagine what else it would be. It’s too big to put in the tumbler, but I’d be quite interested to polish part of it…

We went to collect some more pebbles for tumbling. We didn’t go to the beach we went to last time as it’s by os Catedral beach, which gets very busy in the summer. So instead we went to a pebble…

This is a more humble bench, and while it may not proclaim itself the Best Bench in the World – it was certainly worth a visit 🙂 After going to San Cibrao shopping, we turned left and went to somewhere…

We went shopping and then headed to the other side of the estuary in San Cibrao and had a picnic looking over the beach from the other side. It was quite a different view. The mermaid is there towards the…

Not sure why, but these photos are all a bit faded. We discovered that nasturtium seeds can be used as capers, and are rather nice. Having collected the ones in our garden we decided to do a bit of nasturtium…