Looked out the window…

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…

Armada! (sorry for fuzzy photo!)

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…

Amethyst?

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…

Clearing the garden

Ian has started clearing the corner of the garden which we’ve been using for garden waste and has been very overgrown. If I was stood looking out with my back to the front door, this is the corner of the…

Family of boars!

This is where they were a nano second before I had my phone ready and camera on ☝️ (it’s not a very good pic as it was still quite dark) I saw a boar cross the road, and unlike the…

Pebble Beach

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…

Not the best bench in the world…

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…

Another view of San Cibrao

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 asparagus but…

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…