Sagres!

Lonely Planet got it right when they described Sagres as having that, edge of the world feeling. As most of the European coast that lay face to the Atlantic, Sagres has dramatic cliffs that drop nearly 100 meters straight down to the secluded yellow sand beaches.

We took the short and inexpensive bus ride from Lagos and as we searched eagerly for a spot to bed down for the night, we found ourselves climbing down to the nearest beach. Something we noticed right away about Sagres was the tide. The fluctuation were a lot larger than the beaches we had come from on the Mediterranean. Since it was high tide we had to take a nice trek through the incoming water and waves to get to a good spot. Once we found our nook, and home for the next two nights, we headed straight for the waves. The gett’n was good, and we body surfed till late that evening.

Miss everyone!

Body Surfing!

We enjoyed a nice and light dinner as the sun went down, then watched the canvas of stars above us and the night fishermen till the shooting stars woo’d us to sleep. We saw the most amazing… brightest… longest shooting star we’ve ever seen! It was INCREDIBLE! Halfway through the night though…i woke up all paranoid about the tide coming in! It was the biggest change in tide i’d ever seen….it came all the way up to our tent around 2 in the morning and i was scared it was coming further, so i built a rock wall with a mote in front of it for the next 30 minutes or so haha! It stopped just before out tent luckily…but ya never know!

My safety rock wall!

We spent the whole next day on the beach…played lots of games in the sand…hangman, tic tac toe, and had a photo shoot haha! It was good times and just an amazing beach with amazing water!

Running man!

The best part by far though was waking up in the morning to a completely empty beach that we got to make the very first footprints in! We would go back in a heartbeat!

Footprints!