Sep 16
Ryley slept! Yay!
We made oatmeal before packing up and heading to Lagos – found a coffee shop and loaded our maps into my coros watch so we could try my watch for navigating instead of Ryley’s phone – a big improvement! It has a magnified map, so Ryley uses his map for bigger context but my watch helps navigate the twists and turns and has an alert if we go the wrong way.
Today’s highlight was definitely Praia da Boca do Rio – a relatively quiet beach with clear water, no drop off and a stone house ruin that provided shade for Axel to hang and eat and play at (the waves came up to the rocks at this beach so he wasn’t interested in the beach). Great swim for Ryley and I.
Today had some extremely steep climbs to go around cliffs then drop down to the water – and repeat. We made a plan to stop for early dinner and rest before Sagres but shortly after we made that plan ryley’s adductors cramped so plan b was pull over at the nearest parking lot which happened to be a LIDL supermarket, sit in the shade, eat snacks and cool down and recover for an hour. We only had about 10km to go into Sagres – we did make it in around 6, hit the dinner rush at a restaurant and paid our bill at 7:45 (sunset at 7:41) then rolled out about 1km from town to find a campsite. We did and kind of nailed it, out of sight of the road and near the cliffs above the water near our EDT start. Tomorrow!
Axel QotD: me what did we do today? “went for a bike ride!” what was your favourite part? (thinking the snacks or the beach) “the smooth part”
Pt1: https://strava.app.link/6UXirrqo3Mb
Pt2: https://strava.app.link/9t1ppfto3Mb
wow again. What place. I love Axel’s favourite part.
It”s so beautiful!