As a change from walking, we decided to visit a fairly big town on the east coast, Ribiera Grande. This was an attractive town with a river running through the centre and a pretty town square.
We also visited a couple of attractions in Porta Delgarda itself, namely the fort, which housed an interesting military museum in an impressive building and a lava cave on the outskirts of town.
As usual we enjoyed many of the hiking trails on the island. Probably our favourite was the water trail with lots of aqueducts and a spot where water poured out of a cavern high up on a cliff side which was known as Hell's Mouth.
Another walk with a water theme took us past a reservoir and several hydro electric facilities which had been in use up to the 1970's.
Many walks, many beautiful routes; there are surely worse places to be stuck despite almost a full week of rain.
Scruffbag loves natural swimming pools and certainly enjoyed the thermally heated one on the east coast. I found the swell very challenging and only had a quick dip.
At last, after 4 weeks we finally had a weather forecast that was ok - not brilliant as the wind was forecast to be all over the place and possibly very light in parts. Together with several other boats who had been waiting along with us, we could finally set off back to mainland Europe.
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