Walk from Cafe Correia

 

ALGARVE WEDNESDAY WALKERS

WALK 15.01.2025

What a wonderful morning did await us on this Wednesday. Blue sky, sunshine but chilly. A group of 15 walkers and three dogs set off after realising that the café was not open at this early hour of 10 o’clock.Nobody was very disappointed about this as you can see from the photo.

Bica, Miriam, Martin, Julie, David, Fiona, Alan, Orla, Kieran, Peter, Ken, Linda, Toby, Tony and  Andrew. The late comer Karen and Steve may be seen on the final photo.

We set off westerly direction, our backs were warmed up by the sun to gain more flexibility of our stiff bodies. Ready for the first climb.

Shortly after Malhao we entered the track up to the top of Cerro de Legra.

This is the more unknown track, poorly maintained, if any, by the  Tourist board. Narrow, prickly shrubs, boulders and pebbles and hardly to follow. Halfway up our late comers Karen and Steve joined us exhausted, but in good spirits.

 

The question for a detour to the landmark was commonly rejected and accepted by the leader, but we run shortly into a wild boar track and had to walk back to search for the real one.

At this time we walked already downhill at a higher pace, that nobody did see the only leftover from old days farming. A large man made well or storage pond.

Climb up on the other side of the valley you can see from the happy face of Ken that the most terrible part of the

 walk was over.

Downhill to the Ribeiro de Merces was an easy exercise. Along the ribeiro the temperature dropped down to the stage where a puddle was covered with thin ice. Unfortunately it was not yet strong enough to bear us and faced us to squeeze between shrubs and the water.

Happy to reach more solid grounds we had our lunch in the garden of the local café at Amendoeira. Prevented coffee drinkers from the morning became the late morning coffee at lunchtime.

Freshly refuelled we proceeded towards Carvalha and turned at Rossinas south back into the bushes and further on via the Cerro de Apra to the Moinhos do Malhao.

At the Moihos do Malhao everybody was looking smiling into the camera but just seconds later all of us had to search for the right trail home.

Happily  back at  Cafe Correia we enjoyed a refreshing drink after an walk of around 14km.

Peter