Moved a bit further along the coast this morning, to the end of the runway for Faro airport to be exact. 😬it’s a little noisy as the planes come over so low that you can see the nuts and bolts in their under carriage, but it’s a lovely big carpark, that’s really well situated for seeing the lagoons or going to the beach.
We followed the Ludo Trail – a long straight path with lagoons on each side and then turned alongside the San Lorenzo golf course. There was a bird hide here and we saw so many different species, but I couldn’t get over the amount of turtles. They were everywhere sometimes three or four piled on top of each other!
Guy has looked up most of the birds and we ‘think’ we’ve seen Iberian Magpies, Black Headed Weavers, Spotted Redshank and Eurasian Moorhens, more Flamingos and Spoonbills, but the one thing we didn’t get a clear photo of was an Osprey with a fish in its mouth. We know it was an Osprey as it was confirmed by a proper twitcher who was talking to us.
We tried to do a circular route back to the van and it seemed like there was a path. All was going well until we hit a wire fence that said private property on it. We could see people in front of us and the fence was lifted up at the bottom. Too far to walk back, starving hungry, we went underneath. Guy now has ‘another’ ripped t shirt and a few scratches 😬 Not sure why it was fenced off anyway, it was just a path between some salt pans that took us straight to the village of Ludo.
After eating everything in sight, we walked in the opposite direction to the Praia de Faro. This beach is on a thin spit of land that goes on forever. Beautiful sand too, there must be room for everyone in the summer. Some of the cafes and bars look a bit dated and run down but it is, as we keep forgetting, still out of season.
