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Looking east toward Cais da Fonte Nova, Aveiro.

We were too late arriving in Aveiro to take a boat trip around the extensive Lagoons of Aveiro, and so we take a Gondola Boat Trip around the town's canals. There are relatively few active salt pans these days, with only one salt wholesale company - Salineira Aveirense still in operation at Antigo Cais de S. Roque, which we passed on the boat trip as we travelled along the northern boundary canal beside the A25 Road.

We arrived in Aveiro by train from Porto on a warm sunny breezy day, cooler than the previous 4 days in Porto. The weather became cooler and breezier yesterday evening.

We walked for a long time from Aveiro Railway Station along a long straight avenue toward the centre of Aveiro. When we finally arrive we settle down at Gelados de Portugal for coffee and icecream, before deciding what to do next. At some point I spot a Monarch Butterfly flittering about above the pavement beside Rua João Mendonça. This seemed at the time to be a rare and unlikely vagrant from America, but since then I have found out they have colonised Southern Portugal, and also here in the north around Aveiro:

bardofelysays.blogspot.com/201…

www.algarvewildlife.com/consar…

After cafe refreshment Luciana marshals us across Jardim do Rossio where a handful of Swallows are scooting about in the sky overhead. We hurry to one of the boats taking tourists around the canals of Aveiro which is about to depart.

Photograph by Robert Moss, 5:52 pm Thursday the 14th of October 2021.

Description

Looking east toward Cais da Fonte Nova, Aveiro.

We were too late arriving in Aveiro to take a boat trip around the extensive Lagoons of Aveiro, and so we take a Gondola Boat Trip around the town's canals. There are relatively few active salt pans these days, with only one salt wholesale company - Salineira Aveirense still in operation at Antigo Cais de S. Roque, which we passed on the boat trip as we travelled along the northern boundary canal beside the A25 Road.

We arrived in Aveiro by train from Porto on a warm sunny breezy day, cooler than the previous 4 days in Porto. The weather became cooler and breezier yesterday evening.

We walked for a long time from Aveiro Railway Station along a long straight avenue toward the centre of Aveiro. When we finally arrive we settle down at Gelados de Portugal for coffee and icecream, before deciding what to do next. At some point I spot a Monarch Butterfly flittering about above the pavement beside Rua João Mendonça. This seemed at the time to be a rare and unlikely vagrant from America, but since then I have found out they have colonised Southern Portugal, and also here in the north around Aveiro:

bardofelysays.blogspot.com/201…

www.algarvewildlife.com/consar…

After cafe refreshment Luciana marshals us across Jardim do Rossio where a handful of Swallows are scooting about in the sky overhead. We hurry to one of the boats taking tourists around the canals of Aveiro which is about to depart.

Photograph by Robert Moss, 5:52 pm Thursday the 14th of October 2021.