Cascais

As we've now paid our light dues we're trying to make maximum use of Portuguese light-houses so we arrived in Cascais after dark; dropping anchor outside the marina at 11.45pm. We should negotiate a discount as two of the lights marking the entry to the marina were broken.

On route we saw some sunfish performing strange acrobatics out of the water - tried to catch it on film, but just ended up with facinating shots of the sea.

The dolphins seem to have taken to visiting us at night and accompanied for over an hour as we headed for shore. My confident prediction that they would steer us away from dangerous unlit pot marks was quickly disproven when we had some uncomfortably close calls.

Old and new; Canned fish for sale in Lisbon

Spent two great days exploring Cascais and Lisbon - not long enough, but we've decided to head south to Lagos to see some friends who are about to head off to the Canaries.

View of Lisbon

We're bound for Gibraltar to get a few bits and pieces sorted out before heading off-shore so this is our last chance to see them possibly before the Caribbean. Leaving Cascais we saw Gordon and Anne on Wild Irish Rose - shame we were heading off as I'm sure they would have enjoyed sampling our latest firewater aquisition - Ginja - kind of sour cherry brandy - delicious..