Algarve & Gibraltar

A spring trip to southern Portugal and Gibraltar — mostly dawns on the Algarve’s sandstone sea stacks.

March 2023

A sandstone arch on a beach frames a lone sea stack standing in calm water under a soft dawn sky

Golden sunrise light on tall sandstone cliffs and sea stacks above a smooth, glassy beach

Wide panorama of a curving beach and scattered sea stacks under a band of orange dawn light and dark clouds

Layered sandstone sea stacks rising from still, silvery water under a pale overcast sky

Long exposure of water swirling around rocks on a beach, with sea stacks along the shore and a lone stack offshore

The sun rising between sea stacks, seen from beneath an overhanging cave wall with a mossy boulder in the foreground

A single pointed sea stack in calm, golden water at sunrise

Long exposure of dark sea stacks reflected in smooth blue water before sunrise, under streaked clouds

The limestone ridge of the Rock of Gibraltar under a clear blue sky, with a long sandy beach and the sea far below

Black and white close view of a huge tree's twisting aerial roots and buttresses

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