The Algarve in spring is seriously under-rated when it comes to the variety of flowers - a walk on Thursday with a quite delightful group revealed 10 different orchids, including the man orchid, green-winged orchid and saw-fly orchid - quite rare fritilleries and a large patch of magnificent scilla peruviana.
Yesterday with the same group the wildlife came to the fore - we saw a pair of golden orioles, black winged stilts, sandlings plus other waders but what did excite us was the sighting in the waters of the Alvor estuary of a mysterious 'creatures'- later research by myself identified them as sea hares .