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Madeira - 2009 Apr 20 - May 4

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Cabo Girão
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Serra de Água
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looking to tunnel portal
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looking east across the valley
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See how the pine trees bend in the prevailing north east wind
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Terracing up the mountainside
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There is so little flat land that farmers terrace as far up the mountains as they can
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Central da Serra de Água (power station)
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pipe bringing Levada do Norte down
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Wild gorse is common in the mountains. See Ulex Europaeus
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page on EEM website

Encumeada
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Levada do Norte
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The cafe at Encumeada
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Roger
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Pedras
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looking east

Paúl da Serra
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Roger with wind turbines behind
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After the vertiginous climb up the mountains, the flat bleakness of Paúl de Serra is strangely disconcerting. Even the car looks suprised.
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wind turbines looking east. See how the tops of the peaks peep over the edge of the plateau. The highest peak in the distance is the Pico Ruivo, 1862 metres and this plateau levels off at 1500 metres
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Compare this picture with our one of the Paúl de Serra seen from Pico Arieiro.
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Strange cacti - botanists please identify
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More wind turbines
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The straight road on Paúl de Serra is probably the only road which is straight for over a mile on the island

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