Quinta das Abelhas

We couldn’t find it! The first one that we went to find, and we didn’t succeed. Fraga da Pena is a series of rockpools and waterfalls in the Serra do Açor, we’ve been several times before so didn’t find the scenery as awe-inspiring as if it were a new visit. If you are visiting the area, it is worth visiting with a picnic lunch and swim suits. That water is very cold though. This is the bottom pool, with a long waterfall falling into it.

Then you go over a rickety wooden bridge, and up stone steps. Watch that handrail, its loose in places.
There are small pools and falls all the way up.

Small stone ruins that were once working mills line the route of the water and path. Perhaps, one day, as oil gets more expensive, we’ll see these mills back in use? Here is a picture of a water channel that would have fed the mills with water to turn the mill-stones.

This pool is near the top. The water is so clean and pure, but very very cold.

I don’t understand how we didn’t find the geocache. The GPS said we were within 5 feet of it, but it was nowhere. Perhaps I’ll have another look, when we go there again. This time making sure it is earlier in the day, as it was getting late and cold in the shadow of the steep valley sides.

Stumble it!

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