People digging for clams Estuary at Tavira
Sierra in Portugal
Overnight stop was in a super place, sleep was interurupted by heavy rain - windows had to be closed so we sweltered in the heat. Morning and sunshine greeted us once again and we happily set off for Portugal and the Algarve. Wonderful da for driving, just a couple of minor set backs in the route and we were well on the way - we drove through Vila Real de Sto. Antonio and then thro Castro Marim and onto Tavira where we stopped for the night by a quaint estuary. We waded through the shallow, warm, waters through shoals of fish, we carefully avoided the crabs scuttling sidewards on the sea bed. When the tide went out a few people, mainly men, started digging in the sands for clams, back breaking work which hopefully paid off for them - idyllic plaqce with a small ferry steaming back and forth across the estuary, pasta carbonara for supper and so to bed. Woken in the middle of the night by thunderstorms and Dieter panicking about what he thought was the smell of gas - it turned out to be the smell of the salt flats close by, the wind had changed and with the tide out the smell was quite overpowering - panic over he then realised that he had been bitten by a swarm of mosquitos - needless to say we packed up and left the site rather quickly. Driving further down the Algarve Dieter decided to go inland and up into the mountains again and once again we were on a wing and a prayer with the diesel situation, luckily we arrived at a remote filling station before the diesel ran out.
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