Dimas Sequeira's photos

Achieved by a professor of Porto's High School of Fine Arts.

The salt of Loulé's mine has 2 destinations, according to previous treatment: one quality is used to defrost roads melting the ice - either in central and northern Portugal, or in Sierra Nevada, Spain (transport costs don't make it competitive for more distant destinations); another quality, rich in minerals, is added to livestock feed.

After long use in Loulé's salt mine, this machine is exhibited to the visitors, to show them what kind of machines were once used.

For many years it was used in Loulé's salt mine to load trucks with salt. This machine is kept in the mine to show the visitors what kind of machines were once used.

It is kept there to show the visitors the kind of equipment and machines that once were used. Bringing it back to the surface just to become scrap would involve high costs.

They grow very fast, as a result of the strong aeration of the galleries.

The salt mine of Loulé exhibits many stalactites. They grow very fast, owing to the strong aeration of the galleries.

There are about 40 km of galleries in the mine, most of them no longer used. The capacity of salt extraction reaches 100,000 tons per day, but demand stays far shorter than that. The number of miners working there is very low: between 5 and 10! Aeration of the galleries is ensured by ventilation systems - there are doors to open and close behind you to prevent strong draughts. The temperature inside the mine is constant: 23ºC.

The access to this mine is at Combatentes da Grande Guerra Avenue, Loulé. This elevator (cage) takes 4 minutes between the top and the the bottom, 230 metres below. It is safe, even during earthquakes. Salt was accumulated between 230 and 150 million years ago, when the sea level was much lower - when the single continent Pangea was beginning to disaggregate.

Berlin balls are fried soft cakes, sprinkled with sugar, with or without cream filling. Several sellers can be seen on the beaches, like this one, at Alagoa Beach, Altura, on eastern Algarve. HFW!

Seen at Commerce Street, Olhão.

At Porto Santo airport.

At Campo de Baixo, Porto Santo Island.

After lunch at Vila Baleira, I and my wife decided to walk along the beach to Ponta da Calheta - about 9 km, almost 2 hours. Fortunately it wasn't too hot and we made it without a single bottle of water. Still we had to have fresh drinks in the end. This photo was taken about halfway between Vila Baleira and Ponta da Calheta (eastern Porto Santo coast).

On outdoor table at Porto Santo Beach Club, Vila Baleira.

This natural attraction of Ana Ferreira Peak, on the interior south of Porto Santo Island, was the outcome of the fast cooling of magma in the volcanic conducts. The erosion of soft soil around them during ages revealed these hard rocky formations, immune to erosion.

These formations are the outcome of the fast cooling of magma in volcanic conducts. The softer soil around them was eroded throughout ages, revealing these harder rocky formations, immune to erosion. They can be seen at Ana Ferreira Peak, on the interior south of Porto Santo Island.

The photo was taken at Ana Ferreira Peak. On the background, we can see the Atlantic Ocean, off the western coast of Porto Santo Island.