Photographs

This morning’s rainbow 🌈

Early morning rainbow over Maui, the Pacific Ocean in the background

Grilling this evening.

Two cast iron pans sitting on a corten steel fire bit with a grill, each pan holding shishito peppers and one having spring onions as well

Sunday speed.

A large snail sliding slowly across concrete

I felt as though this faint rainbow was kissing the sky this morning.

A faint, partial rainbow in the distance, over the ocean

This weekend the north shore of Maui has seen a large swell visiting its shores. The photo below does no justice to the size of the size of the waves that were arriving here. Official figures say that at their largest they were between 18ft and 24ft. Zoom in to the far distance to see some monsters just breaking.

The roar of the water, the continual arrival of more waves, all made for quite the spectacle of the force and power of the ocean.

Incredible and beautiful.

Large waves breaking on the north shore of Maui.

Somewhere in Copenhagen.

A bicycle and three chairs next to an orange wall, on a street in Copenhagen

Baldwin beech, Maui, this morning.

Baldwin beech, Maui

Silhouettes

Silhouettes in a back lit window at night.

Miffy

A children’s night light looking like Miffy, a fictional rabbit

A spiral staircase in a Lisbon hotel.

Looking down an artistically designed spiral staircase in a Lisbon hotel

Finally we have rain, along with two rainbows 🌈

Two rainbows and grey sky above a garden of bettlenuts and vegetable planters

This Praying Mantis was there to greet us when we returned home yesterday.

Praying Mantis on door frame

Photographs from Estremoz Saturday Market

Some more images from last week’s visit to Estremoz Saturday market.

The fisherman returning home, or maybe he is on his way to the fishing grounds?

Small fishing boat traveling up the river Sado, through the town of Alcácer do Sal, at sunset

Walking around the market in Estremoz yesterday.

Estremoz in Portugal’s Saturday market

A Pilgrimage to Nazaré

Today I made a pilgrimage to Nazaré, the home in Portugal of big wave surfing, and where the biggest wave ever to be surfed was surfed. Even though I don’t surf, I am surrounded by family and friends who do. I live on Maui where surfers from all over the world come to practice their sport, and just down the road from us is Jaws, the home in Hawaii of big wave surfing.

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Next stop America. The view yesterday from Europe’s most westerly point, Cabo da Roca in Portugal. Cabo da Roca, Europe’s most easterly point, situated in Portugal

Another Micro Meetup in Portugal with @maique, along with my wife, Melissa.

Two men and a woman in Lisbon.

Waiting for a meet up. Espresso cup and empty plate sitting on a tray on a table outside, a busy street behind

Alcácer do Sal by night.

The town of Alcácer do Sal in Portugal at night time, taken from by the river looking up the hill, all lit up

We went out to Arrábida Natural Park yesterday, and what a beautiful park it is. While walking along Praia do Creiro, one of the handful of beaches in the park, I saw a huge jellyfish and washed up at the shoreline. Its body was as large as a head. I’ve never seen one so large. I didn’t have a camera with me while on the walk, and so no picture, though I did capture some from the upper reaches of the park.

Arrábida Natural Park in Portugal, looking out to sea from the the tree covered hills

Arrábida Natural Park in Portugal looking from the upper hills across the sea to the Long Beach running past Comporta

Captures from a walk through Alcácer do Sal this morning. Drawing on an outside cabinet of a man sleeping under a tree Archway, painted blue trim with white as the main color, on a town footpath Chairs lined up outside on a tiled street Painting of half a stylized sad face on an outside cabinet

With the temperature in the low 30s, and cloudless skies, this character was overdressed yesterday.

A mannequin of a fisherman, over dressed for the very hot weather

Day 30 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Treasure, suggested by @agilelisa

From an art exhibition in Florida in 2018.

Lots and lots of little plastic animals, close up, as part of an art exhibit

Day 29 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Contrast, suggested by @gregmoore

Light and dark.

A lit road at night

Day 28 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Workout, suggested by @rom

Always worth it, but quite a workout. Haleakala crater.

View of Haleakala crater

Day 27 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Embrace, suggested by @mroutley

Returning to the UK, I always feel the embrace of the British landscape.

The Downs in Bristol

Day 26 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Belt, suggested by @annie

Taken in a small restaurant/bar in Kyoto in October 2016. A few beverages in view.

Japanese men sitting at a bar in Japan. One is smoking. A half drunk glass of beer sits nearby

Day 25 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Flare, suggested by @matt17r

Autumnal light.

Sun shining through the leaves of an autumnal beach tree

Day 24 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Belt, suggested by @allaboutgeorge

The only belt that I brought with me on this trip. Better than the last one though, when I forgot to bring one at all. Then there was a lot of hitching up of my trousers until I bought a belt.

Belt sitting on a pair of jeans in a draw