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PORTO SANTO
Porto Santo is the North East island of the Archipelago of Madeira.
It is very dry. I was surprised of how much I liked the minerality of its landscape. I appreciated even more the pine forest, surrounded by rocks shaped by the sand and wind.
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I loved to walk in Porto Santo and experiment to catch its mineral beauty.
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Terra da Chã has many endemic vegetation. The lichens are some of them. I don't know their names but loved their shapes and colours. Each picture is an ode to biodiversity.
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Walking around Pico de Facho and Terra de Chã offered unexpected combinations of rocks and trees, and far sights on the Ocean.
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When wind and water become sculptors.
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