On our drive through Arrábida Natural Park over the ridge, we looked down at these tiny bays with houses. In one of those João spent his summers as a kid, and he told wonderful stories from his memories there.
In one of the stories him and his brother, swam with his father to the little island you can see. The island is actually two islands next to each other and in high tide you can swim between them. Don’t let the distance fool you: it took them more than 30 minutes of swimming to get there!
There is also a huge building complex with what used to be a monastery, and a row of ‘isolation meditation chambers’ for the monks up the ridge.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arr%C3%A1bida_Natural_Park
