Marinha to Benagil on the Ocean Cliffs

We had planned on doing a boat trip in the afternoon to see the big Benagil sea caves near Carvoeiro but Fernando advised us against doing this today. The ocean had whitecaps and he didn’t think that it wouldn’t be a pleasant trip.

Instead, he suggested that we drive to Marinha and walk on the trails on top of the cliffs to see the caves. So that’s what we did. It was a bit rugged but we survived.

We saw more than caves. We saw a pirate ship ... or was it a junk ... or a caravel? We couldn’t identify what it was but it was interesting.

We also saw three crazy young men jumping from rock to rocks on the cliffs. We couldn’t watch them for long though.

The sun was starting to go down so we decided to drive back to Lagos.

We have had a good time in the Lagos area. Donna leaves for Tavira tomorrow and on Monday we will go to Faro. We will meet up again on the following weekend, in the university town of a Evora.Read more