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2017年9月30日
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日1
2017年9月30日土曜日
☀️ 24 °C
海抜: 海水位
ポルトガル Ponta Delgada 37.717108, -25.69790237°43’2” N 25°41’52” W
Arrival
2017年9月30日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Arrived at Ponta Delgada on the island of Sao Miguel at midnight, and left at 6.30 to get a flight to the island of Teceira. Spent the morning sightseeing by minibus, especially the rock formations from the various volcanic eruptions (there hasn't been one since the 17th century!)
There are only six of us on the tour, all tolerable and mobile, so we can pack in a lot of places and stops without it taking too long. The minibus is a bit ancient with not much suspension and no air- conditioning.もっと詳しく
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日2
2017年10月1日日曜日 19:30
🌙 20 °C
海抜: 508 m
ポルトガル Ermida da Lapinha 38.693705, -27.21240738°41’37” N 27°12’45” W
Day 2 - island of Teseira
2017年10月1日, ポルトガル ⋅ 🌙 20 °C
After lunch, in a stunning new restaurant, we when down inside one of the volcanos where the lava cut tubes into the rock and these are now tunnel-shaped caves. As well as being a great experience it was also nice and cool inside. It has been clear blue skies today and the temperature is mid-20's, but it is very humid so after a late arrival yesterday and an early start today we are definitely wilting!もっと詳しく
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日3
2017年10月2日月曜日 14:59
☀️ 24 °C
海抜: 97 m
ポルトガル Posto Santo 38.661938, -27.22421338°39’43” N 27°13’27” W
Day 3 - Terceira to Faial
2017年10月2日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Spent the morning on a walking tour of Angra do Heroismo, which is a UNESCO world heritage site, on Terceira before having lunch and leaving to go to the airport. Flying this afternoon to the next island, Faial, and having a tour of the harbour and volcanic rock formations. Except as of 3 p.m. We are still at airport waiting for the plane, which has technical problems. In the meantime I'm looking at the one plane on the Tarmac, which is a NATO plane, this being a big NATO base.もっと詳しく
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Just home from Alex's after lovely weekend. Thank you for a very relaxing couple of days. Great to see your photos! Looks like a fascinating place. Lots of lovely sunshine to top up the Vitamin D! Davina xx
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日3
2017年10月2日月曜日 18:48
⛅ 23 °C
海抜: 131 m
ポルトガル Flamengos 38.541721, -28.65810538°32’30” N 28°39’29” W
Day 3 - on to Faial
2017年10月2日, ポルトガル ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Finally got the flight and arrived in Faial in time for a tour round the port. It's the fourth busiest marina in the world because of the trans ocean sailing boats that put in there, also cruises. Each sailing boat paints a panel on the harbour wall to record their ocean transit, some of them have recorded up to a dozen trips. We also stopped at rock formations where the lava flows have come down to the coast and have been worn away to create arches, holes and sea tunnels.もっと詳しく
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日4
2017年10月3日火曜日 21:23
🌬 17 °C
海抜: 770 m
ポルトガル Cabeço da Rocha 38.450362, -28.26232938°27’1” N 28°15’44” W
Day 4 - ferry to Pico island
2017年10月3日, ポルトガル ⋅ 🌬 17 °C
Leisurely breakfast and a stroll around the port, then a 30 minutes ferry journey to Pico, the next island, for the day. The tour took us all around the island visiting a wine museum (but with no wine), a whale museum ( but with no whales!). This was a big centre of whaling so it's still very recently in everyone's minds. Now it's a big centre of tourists wanting to go out to see whales off the islands. We may go later in the week. The island is dominated by its huge volcano, which is the highest mountain in Portugal. We also saw lots of the lava rock formations again, with huge Atlantic waves crashing over them. After getting the ferry back to Faial, we went up the caldera of the volcano here, but by the time we got there the clouds had come down and all we could see was thick fog!もっと詳しく
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日5
2017年10月4日水曜日 18:51
⛅ 22 °C
海抜: 35 m
ポルトガル Santo Amaro 37.751173, -25.58948137°45’4” N 25°35’22” W
Day 5 - from Faial back to Ponta Delgada
2017年10月4日, ポルトガル ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
Trip out in the morning sunshine to the other end of the island to see where the last big eruption created a small offshore island that then got joined to the shore. The eruption went on for eighteen months and left the lighthouse that was on the cliffs marooned inland surrounded by the lava and ash. Very surreal! Then a flight to the island of Ponta Delgada, which was where we arrived at midnight on day one.もっと詳しく
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日6
2017年10月5日木曜日 19:40
⛅ 18 °C
海抜: 873 m
ポルトガル São Miguel Island 37.764326, -25.49666937°45’52” N 25°29’48” W
Lots of volcanoes
2017年10月5日, ポルトガル ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Another good day today despite it being cloudy most of the time but still 22C. This island was originally two, formed by volcanoes 1 - 2 million years ago. About 50,000 years ago some fissures between them spewed lava that joined them together. This morning we went up one of the eastern volcanoes which has a beautiful crater lake, Lagoa do Fogo. Then onto an area of fumaroles with bubbling hot water forming pools. This is a very popular areas with the locals who come to bathe in the iron rich hot water and as today is a national holiday, it was packed.
We continued down to the north side of the island where there is a pretty old town called Ribeira Grande.
This afternoon we went up a volcano at the far west of the island where a whole sequence of eruptions has created several craters most with lakes of rain water in them.
A drive round the west and north coasts brought us back to Ponta Delgarda where we visited a pineapple plantation and saw the lengthy and tricky process to grow just one pineapple per plant.もっと詳しく
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日6
2017年10月5日木曜日 22:26
⛅ 18 °C
海抜: 873 m
ポルトガル São Miguel Island 37.764326, -25.49666937°45’52” N 25°29’48” W
More volcanoes and pineapples
2017年10月5日, ポルトガル ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
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日7
2017年10月6日金曜日 19:33
⛅ 20 °C
海抜: 171 m
ポルトガル Caldeiras 37.766421, -25.29036737°45’59” N 25°17’25” W
Day 7 - volcanic geysers and hot pools
2017年10月6日, ポルトガル ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
Last night we had dinner at a fish restaurant on the harbour, and indulged in some local favourites, including some really tasty octopus and some not so tasty limpets. Then today we started the day by going to an area of volcanic geysers, fumerols and hot springs. The clouds of steam are amazing and we were able to go for a swim in one of the hot water pools. To get lunch they buried a big pot of meat and vegetables in the hot ground, and left it till lunch. Interesting, but in truth not really better than a good stew!もっと詳しく
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日7
2017年10月6日金曜日 19:42
⛅ 20 °C
海抜: 171 m
ポルトガル Caldeiras 37.766421, -25.29036737°45’59” N 25°17’25” W
Day 7 - more
2017年10月6日, ポルトガル ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
After lunch we drove all round the eastern end of the island, and stopped at a pretty waterfall, and had doce de leche icecream. Then a trip to a tea plantation, a tour of the factory and a welcome cup of tea!もっと詳しく
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日8
2017年10月7日土曜日 16:08
⛅ 21 °C
海抜: 169 m
ポルトガル Santa Ana 37.790484, -25.54078437°47’26” N 25°32’27” W
Last day - whale watching
2017年10月7日, ポルトガル ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
We were due to go on a whale watching trip today, but Lynette didn't feel up to it so I went alone. Just a few minutes out of the harbour we came to a school (school? Pod?) of maybe 30 or 40 dolphins (common ones apparently) and stayed watching them for a while then went further out to sea and a found a huge school (maybe many hundred) of much rarer Atlantic spotted dolphins feeding. The ocean seemed full of them, swimming, diving and jumping to great heights, higher than the boat. They are so fast that it's near impossible to catch them with a camera. Then finally I got my whale, a big Fin whale, mostly going just under the surface and just coming up a bit to breath. All we got to see was its fin and a back of its back, not a head or tail, and again coming up and diving much fast to get a picture.

Back home tomorrow - early flight to land at gatwick at 1 p.m., so giving an hour or so to get out of the airport, and maybe a couple of hours train home, we could back home late afternoon. Somehow I doubt that it will work like that!もっと詳しく
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旅行の終了
2017年10月7日