the Porto Santo ferry is sailing through the clouds. The spelling Areeiro is also seen. Indeed the Carta Militar (cf. Ordnance Survey) uses one spelling at one scale and the other spelling at a different scale! Google thinks Arieiro is more common

Looking south

Looking west

Looking north west

Looking west

Roger atop the mountains

Looking west to the wind farm on Paúl de Serra.

The steps to the viewpoint

Looking north

Roger checking his exposure

Pico do Ruivo from Pico do Arieiro

the summit - 1816 metres

Roger on top of Pico do Arieiro

The hotel on the Pico is shut, but seems to undergoing some building work

the secondary peak is called the Miradouro do Juncal

Looking east

Brocken spectre or glory

The road to the summit

Above the clouds

Looking north to Eagle Rock

Looking north to Eagle Rock

Brocken spectre or glory

cruise ship heading towards Funchal

works access to two tunnels being built on the extension of the rapido

possibly because it was May Day, people, mainly children, were selling these flower necklaces at the roadside all over the place

Wild poppies

Wild scabious?

Igreja do São Pedro

May Day is a workers holiday and native Madeirienses formed happy family groups with picnic tables at every attractive spot

Camella

Roses

Begonias in a front garden

includes Centro de Saudé

The minimalist modern architecture of this civic square contrasts with the ornateness of the churches

built by another Austrian firm: Reisch Maschinenbau - page on their website

On the small patch of flat land at the bottom of the cliff are strange gardens (allotments?) divided by stone walls

Small shrine to St Christopher

Rock plants

Rush fences protect against the north east wind

Is it a home or an allotment shed?

The paths create a maze to a cafe which we never reached

The gardens are fed by mini levadas

This small dwelling is harvesting wind power

Sugar cane blasted by the salty wind

T.S. Eliot in Little Gidding writes of places at "the world's end, some at the sea jaws". This is one of them.

Wild poppies and scabious

Roger on the rocks

Who is that small figure in the distance?

Wild poppies

three dykes run up this cliff - compare with this on Fuerteventura

Ferns

Cacti

Pride of Madeira

The base of the teleférico

Candles, lilies and fresias decorate this roadside shrine. More Senhoras

Nossa Senhora da Conceição. More Senhoras

Cactus garden at Porto Moniz

It is clear that the Madeirenses did not build the pool here for themselves, but so that they could be entertained by seeing foolhardy northern europeans swept out to sea

At last, Roger gets to swim

Only two other swimmers braved the waves, which crash over the rocks and send mini tsunami across the pool

Roger swimming

See how the rock plants crawl down the cliff

Tamarisk trees? Botanists please identify

Sea pinnacle

looking back to Porto Moniz

looking down to Seixal

The long flight of steps in the middle of this view leads up to the Santuário de Nossa Senhora de Fátima

Centro de Dia

Nossa Senhora dos Remédios More Senhoras

Igreja da Nossa Senhora da Graça in Rua Cónego Agostinho Figueira de Faria. I looked up this good canon. Google's translation of an article about him says: "by resolution buddy of 18 May 1995 the City Council Chamber of the Wolves gave their name to the street between the apricot and Largo's skate". More Senhoras

looking across to Garachico. Igreja da Nossa Senhora do Bom Sucesso. More Senhoras

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apparent gradient 1:2.8