Journey from Cascais to Southern Portugal
We set off at about 9p.m. and very shortly got into a large area of fog, this lasted for several hours into early morning. Nigel did the night shift as he had a bad cough and didn’t think he would sleep anyway.
In the morning of 24th June Elaine took over for a while as Nigel rested, the fog had gone and after some time as we reclosed towards land we were able to see along the coast.We passed Cabo de São Vicente, the southwest corner of Portugal, in late afternoon. The coast by then had developed into spectacular cliffs with rock seams and colours that laid and turned at all angles. There were clefts and caves and sheer rocky islets, and in one of the caves there was what looked like a geyser from time to time, as the substantial swell of water swooshed in and rebounded off something in the cave.
As we went around the corner the swell rapidly disappeared, however the wind increased from 10 knots very soon to 25 knots, so finally the engine was switched off and we sailed!