Madeira - 2009 Apr 20

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Achadas da Cruz

teleférico

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Page at Madeira-web

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

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bottom of the cliffs

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

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Small shrine to St Christopher

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Rock plants

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Rush fences protect against the north east wind

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Is it a home or an allotment shed?

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

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The gardens are fed by mini levadas

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This small dwelling is harvesting wind power

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Sugar cane blasted by the salty wind

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

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Wild poppies and scabious

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Roger on the rocks

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Who is that small figure in the distance?

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Wild poppies

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

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Ferns

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Cacti

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Pride of Madeira

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The base of the teleférico

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Santa

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above Porto Moniz

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

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Homenagemdos Motoristas do Porto Moniz aNossa Senhora dos Bons Caminhos1.7.84

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Nossa Senhora da Conceição. More Senhoras

Porto Moniz

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Cactus garden at Porto Moniz

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Piscinas Naturais do Porto Moniz

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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

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At last, Roger gets to swim

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

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Roger swimming

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See how the rock plants crawl down the cliff

Porto Moniz

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Tamarisk trees? Botanists please identify

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Ribeira da Janela

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Sea pinnacle

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looking back to Porto Moniz

above Ribeira da Janela

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looking down to Seixal

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Cruz da Caldeira

200 metres up the road to Fontainhas

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

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Quinta Grande

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Centro de Dia

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Escola Básica e Pré-escolar do 1° Ciclo da Quinta Grande

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Igreja

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Nossa Senhora dos Remédios More Senhoras

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Vera Cruz

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Estreito de Câmara de Lobos

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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

Lourencinha

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apparent gradient 1:3

Ribeira Real

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apparent gradient 1:2.7

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apparent gradient 1:2.8

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Pizo

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Pico das Arrudas

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from bridge over motorway

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from NW of church

Pico dos Barcelos

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Igreja in Santo Antonio 32.811281,-17.248664

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São Martinho

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Quebradas

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Cabo Girão

One evening we heard ecclesiastical music being broadcast over loudspeakers and we saw candles moving through the woods recalling the Ave Maria sequence in Disney's Fantasia. Roger followed the sound and it led him to the summit of the Cabo Girão promontory where stands the Capela de Nossa Senhora de Fátima (babel fish version). It was crowded with people taking part in a Peregrinação ao Santuário de Nossa Senhora de Fátima (babel fish on the pilgrimage and local copy).

Santuário de Nossa Senhora de Fátima

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next morning it looked like this. More Senhoras

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Health and Safety may not have visited the sugar cane factory but they have seen to it that live candles are forbidden within Portuguese churches. This outside stand is for burning candles