Day 2 started off slow - we slept in, ahhh, then got our espresso, then jumped on the yellow bus for another day of touring. And look at the sights - wow, just amazing! There were a lot of good well marked hiking trails
Today we saw more sun than clouds, so it felt a lot warmer even though the temps were still in the 60's
Loved all these hiking trails - another amazing view after another!
The island is large (over 700 km), but still small enough that you can see the ocean from every vista
It's hard to tell the sky from the ocean!
For lunch, we stopped in 7 cities - a quaint village in the crater of a volcano
Then we headed back to Ponta Delgada
More amazing views of other villages on the way
Just as we were disembarking from the bus, Chris says - there's Moonshadow. I'm like 'what?' He says Moonshadow is just pulling into the harbor! We are about a half mile from the harbor (we zoomed way in for the photo above). I can't believe he recognizes a sailboat from our yacht club! We knew that they were sailing to the Azores (via Florida and Bermuda), and we knew that they would be in the Azores around the middle or end of June, but we never really expected to see them. But we did!! (Good thing Chris saw them pulling into their slip because they were on the outer part of the marina and we wouldn't have noticed them after they were docked)
So we hustled over to the marina and welcomed John & Jil (and their daughter Lauren) to the Azores!! They had actually just done an overnight from Faial (another island in the Azores) where they first landed from their 11 day trip from Bermuda. These 2 are definitely using their sailboat!!
We let John & Jil settle in and we headed to dinner. A great restaurant Singular - yum! More fresh Tuna!
Then we walked back to the hotel and enjoyed some live music at a street party.
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