- window
- Bathing season 1 Jun — 30 Sep, warm clear water. Morning while the wind is light.
- tide
- Small tidal range; mid/high water is gentler for entering off the rocks beside the pool.
- shelter
- Rocky shore on the south side beside a 25×12 m saltwater pool right at the sea. Sheltered from N wind, open to S swell.
- conditions
- Only in flat calm with little swell. Outside the pool the shore is rocky and open — needs a settled sea to enter and exit safely.
- hazard
- Rocky exit on an open south shore: with any size of swell it slams the rocks. Don't confuse the bathing zone with the open sea beyond it.
- access
- Ribeiras village on the south coast, east of Lajes: municipal pool, changing rooms, bar; reach the open sea off the rocks alongside.
Documented as a bathing/pool zone, not a hunting spot — scout from land; hunting is banned inside the marked bathing zone.
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