#Monomad Challenge - Angeiras beach, Lavra, Portugal

Good afternoon, #Monomad friends

A simple day... No plans, just knowing I didn't have to go to work. Leaving the house, knowing that I wouldn't be locked in a room out of obligation... The human will governs itself in such a simple way. Like a child, if we know that we have to do something that is "our duty", it takes on a less good or positive connotation.

Going to the seaside or touching the sand is always an invigorating experience for me. This is because my best childhood memories are linked to the beach.

My vacations weren't all spent at the beach. I only managed to go to the beach for a little over two weeks a year, and one of those weeks had my whole family together! How I miss that... We'd go early in the morning and take a picnic. After eating the picnic, we'd go down to the beach, often ending with a "bola de Berlim"/Berliner (doughnut)! What a pleasure... what a joy. When we're children, emotions are much harder to control, but joys are much easier to achieve. Or could it be that as children we keep our spirits more pure and free of constraints or social obligations?

In any case, this beach is not the beach of "my childhood", but the beach that my compadre uses as a starting and finishing point for his fishing trips. So it has nothing in common with my Magoito beach.

This is Angeiras beach, which has inspired me a few times for previous posts (link 1, link 2) here in the Black and White community. A beach that for a large part of this community is more than just the meeting of land and sea... more than the constant coming and going of the tides, seagulls and boats...

One of the most photogenic elements is the meeting of sea and land.... and all that surrounds it.

^{Due to the specificity of this beach, and with many internal combustion vehicles used for fishing activity and for what surrounds it, Angeiras beach has a refueling station a few meters from the water line}

^{Nameplates are always a good object to photograph. This one is made of hand-painted tiles. In your country, how are the plaques of the most traditional places made?}

^{A small oratory. The patron saint of the fishermen of Angeiras is the best-known saint in Portugal. Our Lady of Fátima.}

^{The path down to the beach, lined with fishermen's storage houses}

^{The things that always satisfy me! Photographing at dawn, with the shadows running across the photograph}

^{There are more than a few boats on the beach... A constant on the beach that is also called Fishermen's Beach}

^{The promise of a sun that has broken through the heavens... its return, even if it can't be glimpsed tomorrow}

I hope you enjoyed my post here in the B&W community

Bem Hajam 🍀

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