All from Praia Formosa (beautiful beach), a volanic-rock and black-sand beach on the edge of Funchal. Not an easy swim like the beach at Seixal, on the other side of the island, but certainly dramatic and lovely.
Above and below, a group of photos from a pre-dawn & sunrise walk my first morning on Madeira last Monday. The boat shown taking to sea above is the ferry to Porto Santo, the second inhabited island that’s part of the Madeiran archipelago. The combination of few full-sun days and limited ferry departures meant I didn’t make it over on this visit, but would certainly hope to if I visit again :-).
Two views along the coast towards Funchal, from Cabo Girao, where there’s a glass walkway more than 500 meters above the beach. You’ll see those pics in due course :-).
OK, it’s immediately clear that Madeira, and the lovely city of Funchal where I’m staying, will present abundant moments of beauty which I’ll want to photograph. At least when the sun is shining, which it has today and may choose not to do again during my week here. So I’ve already snapped more’n enough to get me through my remaining 47 days of posts, hence my three-in-a-day milestone today. Each of these lovely little entrances sits on one short street :-).
(so much world, so little time....) 