May 4, 2023
Around 8 AM we anchored on the pier in the port of Punta Delgada on the Island of San Miguel. There are 69,000 inhabitants on the island, apparently there are the same amount of cows. Dairy is big business here. Other means of income are, fishing and tourism. Our first glance from the boat, it looked like a nice city with several hotels facing the harbour.For this morning we had a tour booked to visit the volcanic lakes up in the hillside. Apparently it is a stunning few to look down upon the lakes. We set off driving through the outskirts of the City and soon after that we were driving through green pastures. Soon as our road started to gain elevation we started to loose our sight because of the thick fog. Our first stop was in a small town named San Nikolau. In this town we looked at yet another old church. Besides that it was just an ordinary small farm town , several farm tractors were passing by on the street when we were standing around. Our next visit on the agenda was to do a drive by a lake named Sete Cidades. Well, we never were able to see the lake because of the thick fog. The fog stayed like that till we got back to sea level. Our next stop was a wine and cheese lunch in a local hotel. The wine and cheese were sourced from the Azores. This was an excellent lunch. After lunch we didn’t go back onto the bus , but ventured off into the City to do some site seeing. Pta Delgada is a very beautiful old city with a lot of stores and cafees. We spend the remainder of the afternoon walking through the streets till our feet were getting tired.For tomorrow we have our last stop off the voyage, one of the other Azores Islands named Ilha Terceira.
Cheers
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