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Spotted this rustic scene while we we were following the 'Megalithic Route' in a valley near Vila do Bispo, searching for the remains of menhirs.

This scene reminds me that a few days earlier, while driving down to Sagres from Elvas via an trunk road, I spotted a flock of sheep in the distance, being driven. They were heading in our direction with the sun, low behind them, shining through the dust they were kicking up. It was a timeless scene that I would have loved to capture. Not possible sadly as I was driving.

There had been many menhirs in the valley but they had all been toppled over and damaged or destroyed over the centuries. There is still one Menhir standing a little outside the valley, an extra here. It does seem strange that so many were destroyed but just one was left intact.

In the afternoon, after lunch, we visited Sagres fort and the headland that it gives access to. The fort was apparently once the site of a school of navigation run by Henry. Prince Henry the Navigator that is.