Stage 10

Stage 10, already since our departure from Cabo de São Vicente! This is a short stage from the campsite in Olhão to the campsite in Fuseta. If we make the stage longer, we'll get in trouble with the next stages. The sun is shining bright today and the wind has lied down a little, so we can take it easy. We walk a dirt track between the campsite and a railway, which unfortunately dead-ends against a fence after a kilometer The path does continue, but it's private property. Fortunately, after some searching we find a small path along a railway, that we can cross a little further to get back to the trail. We continue on a dirt road past water basins. Again, we see many water birds such as flamingos, storks and oystercatchers. These basins are also used for breeding oysters and fish, so the birds have plenty to eat. We briefly pass a paved road with some houses, but soon turn back into nature. A bit further from us are the dunes that seal off this nature reserve from the ocean, but we won't see them today. We walk the rest of the route on an unpaved cycle path through the marshy landscape of Ria Formosa, among the yellow flowering nodding sorrel. This plant does not actually belong here and displaces many native plants, but the fields of yellow flowers are a stunning sight. Soon we arrive at the harbour town of Fuseta and, since it's only a small town, at the campsite in no time. For once, it's great to be sitting in front of the tent, in the sun with a coffee at two o'clock! How luxurious....