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14 August,
2005
Apple Beach (PRAIA
DAS MAÇÃS shown on the map in red), where we live,
is located between Oilmills of the Sea (AZENHAS DO
MAR also shown on the map), home of my namesake Jorge Sá Pessoa, and Big Beach (PRAIA
GRANDE also shown on the map), home of PGSA.
The cliffs hide small creaks where sand is only visible at low tide a couple
of times a year like Mindelo or Bico da Messa.
For example, at Mindelo sand was visible on 14 January, 2001 around 1 pm just as I arrived from a NBER conference in Florida.
On 8 and 9 December, 2001 around 3
pm sand was visible north of Azenhas
and I was able to find my way there thanks to the help of my namesake. Jorge subsequently
found from 93 year old Dona Ermelinda the name of that beach and of five
others south of Aguda, and several years later we
labeled the crucial rock in that perilous path Jorge's
stone. On 3 January, 2002 Apple Beach was over 1
meter higher and extended some 200 meters North in the direction of Mindelo, which was back to its normal appearance.
On 29 March, 2002
(Good Friday) beaches from Mindelo to Aguda were extremely large at low tide around 9:30 am, and the same was true of Grande on 30 March and of Mindelo
on Easter Sunday.
Points of interest in the map, other than beaches:
· Cabo da
Roca, Europe's Westernmost point (West
coast of Ireland
seemingly included)
· Colares,
known for its "bullet" wine Until it was torn down, on 2
August, 1999, we could see a magnificent gothic mansion,
also known as Mindelo. The mansion was replaced by a new
road, which allowed us to build our camino real
to the sea.
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