Portugal
Alexanders CavePaxos
al límitehoy expuesto al mar de fondo de frente (nivel ciudad)
- ventana
- Light here works against the timetable: the wall faces west, so before midday the sun barely touches it, and by the time it does the breeze is already up. The working window is late morning. The season runs June to October, in May hunting is closed nationwide, and night is off limits from sunset to sunrise.
- marea
- The water at the wall here is layered: by late summer a cold layer sits deep, you feel the boundary on your skin, and the fish often hold just under it. High and low water differ by two or three tens of centimetres, which gives you nothing to plan on. There is no freshwater murk — this coast has no streams.
- abrigo
- There is no shelter here in the usual sense, only the shadow of the island: high ground cuts the flow from the east, and with an offshore wind a smooth band a couple of hundred metres wide stands under the wall. Let the wind swing past south-west and the band is gone — the wave bounces off the vertical rock and doubles on itself.
- condiciones
- The ideal set-up is three or four quiet days in a row with no westerly component: then visibility at fifteen to thirty metres opens out to full shooting range. A fresh south-westerly kills it outright, and an old windless swell is sneakier — glass on top, but down below it rocks you along the wall.
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