Around Ayamonte- I'm re-naming this town Hiya Mozzie, due to the fact that I have been bitten several times and a first for this trip!

Looking north from our berth.

 And west.

Greg wandering one of the many little streets tonight.

Santa Augustian just off main square Ayamonte.

Visitors onboard Lerryn Lady Ayamonte Marina Spain

 

First night in Ayamonte Marina on the Portugese/Spanish border and friends gather. Greg with Romain (left of picture) who we first met in Peniche a few weeks ago and two fellow Canadians, Andre and Rejean, here for a ten day sail along the Spanish coast. We hope to meet them in Cadiz next weekend before their return to Quebec.

   Same as above :O) well, sort of ...

 

Last day in Faro

Here the view from Port at our anchorage outside Faro harbour - these sandbars will ground you at high tide as well as low! But they are home to the most amazing birds - the migratory birds are only just starting to arrive. To drift off to sleep and wake to their calls is just * magic *.

 The business end of getting water supplies when at anchor...

Typico tourist in Faro :O)

 

Child with pigeons...

 

I love these roof tiles.

 

 

Old Town Faro

West gate...

A mix of Moorish and Roman architecture ... here a Roman styled garden...

Typico exterior...

 

Portugese cat flap :O)

 

As it was Victoria's birthday we bought her a cake!

 

 

 

Spotted in the Alameda Gardens Faro :O)

Mummy Peahen with one of her three pea-lings :O) So sweet

Something Macabre - not for the fainthearted OK...

In the Chapel of Bones  in the garden of the Igreja Do Carmo. The whole place is made of bones and skulls from the burial grounds within the Monastry...

This is the ceiling...

The Altar!

 

One corner...

 

The doorway. There are some 1200 skulls in there and innumerable hip and knee joints.

 

Faro today

Motorboat marina Faro. We came in by RIB from the lagoon.

Clam and cockle pickers at work today.

  Gate into Old Town Faro...

 

Pavement leads you to the water...

 

Typical cafe getting ready for the lunchtime crowd.

 

This tree has outgrown it's pot...

 

In the middle of a car park ladies with a hair braiding business under umbrellas :O)