Wild camping Algarve

We drove into Lagos past Golf resorts, Villa sub-divisions and condominium/apartments. There was lots of advertising for the Lagos Zoo. There were lots of English, German and Dutch people in the supermarket. We had lunch out at a point with small lighthouse and palm trees. It was raining and some us did more Christmas shopping at Intermarche. We went to the Municipal parking in ‘Vila de Bespo’ by the town hall and surrounded by schools for the night. There were lots of other campers and free Wifi so we caught up with NZ. After 2 weeks no internet we get it three times in one day.
We drove to the south-western point of Portugal and western Europe to Sagres-a town without footpaths so everyone walks on the road. . An English ‘snowbird’ told us the old fort was free on Sunday-today. We had lunch and watched some surfers. We drove down to the marina and looked at a sea break made of interesting shaped concrete breakers. We went to the ‘Fortaleza de Sages’ - ‘curtain’ fort with a wall that seperates the point to the mainland and the cliffs naturally protect the rest. There was a little church and a couple of defensive buildings the rest of the point looked like somewhere from the moon-it was all rocky. There were fisherman halfway down the cliffs fishing. There were information panels talking about explorers, discovering the Atlantic and renewable energy sources-wind, solar, hydro and wave/tidal. There were holes connected to caves and the sea and we could hear and see the water?air blowing from the waves. Some of the smaller ‘Furma’(Blowholes) had grates that you could stand on to feel the power of the air blowing though. We drove back to Vila de Bespo to shop then 3km out to the west coast. Steve was there, the musician we met further north. The weather wasn’t very nice but we could cross the small stream to get to the beach.
We were intending on moving to another beach but we stayed. Steve asked us if we wanted to watch one of his 300 DVDs so we got Avatar. We transformed the bed/couches at the back into a cinema and really like the message behind the movie of Avatar.
We walked on the beach even though it was rainy and watched more movies. We did lots of present wrapping and card making. We had a 2^nd and 3^rd night at the beach. A Sheperd had a herd of goats, sheep and cows and walked them from inland to the beach and up onto the cliffs to graze. Dad went walking with Steve who’s a big walker and cyclist. On the third day we discovered a washed up dead cow and it was very windy.