Captain & first mate

BOAT RIDE

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February 1st 2024
Our last adventure! We set off at 11:35 to walk down to the marina and pick up our tickets for the zodiac boat ride to see dolphins and sea caves. Heading out into the ocean which is the Strait of Gibraltar it appears we are just heading straight south towards Casablanca in N. Africa. I have always wanted to go there but not by zodiac boat with 17 other passengers. The ocean is a wondrous colour. ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Algarve » Albufeira

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Following its heyday as a world power during the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal lost much of its wealth and status with the destruction of Lisbon in a 1755 earthquake, occupation during the Napoleonic Wars, and the independence in 1822 of Brazil a... ... read more