The strange thing is that washing simply is not drying here, the weather is hot for us but direct sun has been limited over the last few days due to a lot of loud cover and the humidity means clothes are struggling to dry.
As I type I can hear the ground canaries and little doves scrabbling around in today's seed ration.
Alessandra and Alex cooked some chocolate fairy cakes filled with hot chocolate sauce which were a hit and home made chicken pie leftovers made for a great lunch.
Eventually we got going and a reduced party headed to investigate a beach and some falls.
We failed to find the falls at Praia de Solidao but subsequent googling would suggest the local signposting let us down, still the nearby sandy beach yielded the bony remains of some sand dollars urchins, light coloured mussels with distinctive mother of pearl insides and a rocky areas covered in sand hoppers which moved away from us in droves.
We rescued a fish which had gotten itself washed too far up to beach and found that sand dollar remains make great skimming stones.
Driving back we stopped, further on the same stretch of sand, at Praia do Santinho Acores, where the beach was in use as a way point on a round island (140km) run (good day for it, relatively chilly and a decent wind).
Whilst Roger and I watched the running and surfers
Alex braved the, admittedly warmer today, South Atlantic with some decent waves.