Photos from Lisbon - now heading south

Loved Lisbon, but time to head south down the coast.  Next stop is Sines, the town where Vasco de Gama was born (and where we've heard there's good spear fishing...Hugo is dying to try out the spear gun from our ditch bag...that's the bag that goes with the life raft).  And I have to admit, castles, churches and museums just don't compare with the lure of spear fishing, and we're all ready for a small town.

The past few days we've covered over 7,000 years of history...and what feels like 7,000 miles of walking.  We visited the Moorish Castle of St. George, where we found the cannon mentioned in one of the books we're reading, churches of the Christian Reconquest, a great maritime museum of the Portuguese Age of Discoveries and a monastery with the tomb of Vasco de Gama. We also rented a car and drove to an area with 5,000 BC Neolithic megaliths (big rocks that look like dinosaur eggs) and learned about dolmen, comlechs and menhirs.  The Oceanarium was also a family favorite.  One of our other quests on our trip has been to see the only two remaining wooden frigate museum ships:  the USS Constitution in Boston Massachusetts and the Dom Fernando II e Gloria in Lisbon Portugal.  Incredibly fortunate to have seen them both!



Castle of St. George





Maritime Museum





Tomb of Vasco de Gama in Hieronymites Monastery

Yes, we all had a hard time

keeping a straight face with this one

5,000 BC Megaliths








Lisbon Oceanarium

Ocean sunfish at the Oceanarium, the same kind

of fish we saw after leaving the Chesapeake

Wooden sailing frigate