The Clark Family's Amazing Adventures

This is me, Daddy and Ben ready to go on an adventure to Lopes Mendes beach. We took a rucksack because we need water, long trousers and mossie spray too.

Ready to go

This is a map of where we are going just in case we get lost. The map was on Daddy’s iPhone because we couldn’t get the one on the wall off.

Map of where we are going

We started at the hottest time of day at 12.18pm. We took our time as we walked along because it was so hot. It was very hard to walk uphill. The trail was kind of bumpy.

Walking uphill

We walked 30 minutes before we had a stop to drink water. We felt really, really, really, really hot.

Stop for water

We were at the top of the mountain at this point. It felt really nice to be at the top.

Top stop

It was hard to get over this rock to the first beach but that was the only way.

Abseiling time

This is the first beach it was really sandy as you can see and not very busy.

The first beach

This is a mud house we saw on the beach. It was very old and no-one stayed in it.

Mud house

On the first beach we found a swing and Daddy pushed us very, very high. It was fun.

The fun swing

We had to go to Pouso next. We couldn’t find the path because it was right at the end of the beach. Daddy sneakily went and asked someone where it was.

Up the steep rock to Pouso beach

This is me very, very hot, I look boiling but I am not as boiling as you may think. We drank lots of water and had lunch, we stayed in the shade and walked slowly. It became easier and easier as we walked more.

Me not boiling!

To get on to Pouso beach we had to jump off a bridge. I was the first!

Ben jumping off

At last we got to Lopes Mendes, it was beautiful. We felt really good. I’ve got to admit Ben looks a bit funny in this picture.

Lopes Mendes at last

This is a picture of Lopes Mendes. It is the most beautiful beach on the island. When you stepped on the sand it made a frizzling noise like walking on soft sugar. The beach was very long.

Lopes Mendes beach

(click on picture to get a big view)

The plan was if we walked all the way we could share a can of cold lemonade (we shouldn’t really have this as it is bad for you. Did you know if you are young and have 2 cans of lemonade a week you can get heart problems!*)

Lemonade time!

On the way back we saw a monkey and lost Daddy’s posh sunglasses. Daddy lost them because Ben ran off and Daddy had to run after him and Daddy fell over and they fell out of his pocket. Daddy was OK but he got a bit of a scrape on his leg. I had the best injury of the day. I slipped on a rock and got a hole in my knee, I just whimpered a bit and got a few tears. First we walked on and found a little place to get the First Aid kit out and wipe it a bit and put a plaster on it. I was more careful after that.

Monkey spot

We walked back to Pouso beach and got a boat in time because we didn’t have time to walk home. I wouldn’t have walked home anyway as I was so tired.

The boat coming in

We made some friends on the boat because two people were doing press up and sit ups.     I did sit ups and Ben did press ups. We were the best at them. Ben did 30 press ups and I did 20 sit ups, they cheered after we had done them.

Ben doing press ups

We got back just before 6.00 it was kind of dark as the sun went down. Mummy was quite worried and we couldn’t call her as there was no mobile connection. We walked for about 4 hours and Daddy says we covered about 6 miles.

I felt really tired by the end but I felt really good that I had done it all.

THE END

* DAD – This was in a newspaper article Mum read to BZL to try and wean them off fizzy drinks and back onto water. They don’t normally have them at home but here there are not always fruit juice options and an ice cold can is very tempting. Probably scaremongering as newspapers never spoil a good story for the sake of the truth but impressed that Zoe remembered this!