After that long drive, we got to Óbidos (or really Arelho, a small town outside Óbidos), our host being very friendly, gave us a tour of the house. 3 Bedrooms, 2 with doubles, and one with 2 singles. Nate and I shared the singles room. The next day, I think, we went to Nazaré, because the waves were looking better that day than any other. The waves were 5-ish meters. It was really cool watching big waves crash into the headland and spraying way up. That was a great day out. We also went to Peniche and ran around the dunes for a while.
Unfortunately we are only here for 2 weeks and 5 of those 14 days dad had to go to Washington DC for work. While he was away Mom, Ben, Nate, and I went to the lagoon of Óbidos. It was crazy. There was a maybe 20ish meter gap between sandbars that all the tide water had to get through, because that was the only gap and it is a lagoon at low tide and and inlet at high tide. Anyway we got there and the tide was going out and the waves were coming in. The whole channel was about 1.5 meters deep, but it got that deep in about the same distance.(How I know how deep it was I will tell in a minute) The channel was going fast too. As fast as I can run. How I know how deep it was is because someone waded across it. There were a lot of fishermen out on the sandbar. I do not know why, but there were maybe 15 of them out there. Presumably good fishing.
Other days out include:
A day to Lourinhã dino museum
A day to Sintra, to a Castle of the Moors, and Monserrate palace and gardens
