- Tu-Whoo!
It’s colder and colder!
- Coming?
- Coming!
- It’s very cold!
- Hey guys, we’re in the middle of nowhere
on the peninsula south of Lisbon.
You will see in the video the exact location,
because we don’t know it for now.
We’re going to a secret beach,
which is actually not a real beach, but a pretty rocky shore,
and there’s not another one like this among the surf beaches south of Lisbon.
Hopefully it will be very exciting and beautiful.
As we are walking on the abandoned white sand road, suddenly the traffic is getting bigger,
and then reaching the ocean we can see more cars parking by the road,
which seems like a good sign for us…
- And from the secret road we are turning to a more secret one.
We don’t need to go up here!
- Down? - We have to go down!
Passing by some roadblock rocks we’re walking towards the ocean, you can see on the horizon,
looking for small trails down the hill.
In the meantime, some foreign explorers join us, surprisingly...
- We came along the road totally alone, and suddenly we’ve got a huge company…
Wait for it!
But it seems they don’t move familiar here.
Looking at the water drains at the edge, they are also trying to figure out where to climb down.
- Here is a path, isn’t it?
Or not?
That way!
Watching GPS and satellite images, I try to find the secret path down the hill.
- It’s very beautiful!
And it seems like, I’m succeed.
On the right you can see some other explorers,
while on the left Edina is climbing down.
I think our path is a better choice, so we are not following the "crowd".
Choosing our own way, we’re climbing down independently from the others.
Having cameras in my hand and in my backpack, I’m climbing on my special way,
grabbing the plants with one hand, while getting down on the cliffs.
- Wow, how beautiful place it is!
In the Mediterranean scrub we walk on reddish sandy paths,
seeing larger rocks, indicating water gullies,
and we'll soon jump over stream…
- Secret paths and a fireplace.
Wow, what a nice tree!
- Well, guys, here you can see where we climbed down.
Looking in front of me, that’s where we came down by foot.
And we’re going to that area behind me,
where we will find the shore, if everything goes well.
I’m really curious.
We have mountains covered by clouds on one side, and the ocean is on the other,
while we are crossing this Mediterranean scrub, quite high above the sea level.
But if it goes well, we’re gonna walking right on the shore, soon.
But until that we can reach the edge of the steep rock wall with a view to the bay.
It’s the Ribiera Do Cavalo Beach down there.
- Edina moves quite familiar.
She finds the way!
- Edina can’t wait!
She’s running to the water!
Taking our own paths, we don’t meet any of the people we’ve seen on the top.
But we’re definitely on the right track, as I feel.
And we almost make it without any accident.
- Your shoes!
- Slippery!
- Slippery?
Damn it, how beautiful it is!
- And we’re here…
- There’s nothing to compare with
- …on the secret beach.
At the base of the steep rock wall we find both a sandy and pebble beach with some huge rocks in the water.
One of the rocks has a small natural tunnel in the middle.
Going further from the “entrance”, we find the peddle beach,
and only our imagination is the limit when we start thinking about the shape of the rocks.
Anyway, from this direction one of the rocks definitely looks like a sea ship.
At the end of the bay, a group of rocks closes the beach,
with some holes and caves where we can find many clams and crabs.
- Look, these clams are “built in” this rock!
Looking between the rocks we can see the open water.
But these rocks protect the bay against the huge waves, and the water is getting deeper gradually.
In holes like this, the water only reaches knee or waist, so there are some places where we can crawl in.
Thanks to the spectacular tide, the water level decreases so much in a couple of hours,
that the small tunnel under the central rock is getting totally dry.
- I’m passing through!
In the other end of the bay, near the collapsed part with gullies where we came from,
we find soft sand instead of small peddles on the ground.
And there are big stones peeping under the sand.
This end of the bay is also closed by bigger rocks with narrow holes and caves,
where we can swim or even jump in a hot summer day.
- Not so pleasant!
- But cold!
But on a cloudy day we can picnic at the base of the rock wall,
watching the ship-shaped rock in the water on the beach which is not crowded at all.
It’s worth bringing our own snacks and drinks here,
because there are no facilities at all on the beach.
Be careful, and don’t leave the garbage behind us on this natural beach.
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