The lighthouse at the beach straight ahead and a cool Moijto straight in front of me.
Bea, Stefan and I are relaxing in the Cafe Farol after a long day in the field. As we started our field work with rain, there was quite a bit to do in the field. Besides setting up tipping buckets and rain gauges, organizing the colorful cable salad of the meteo-tower, punching trees with needles (Sapflow measurements), the very first discharge measurements of 2009 had to be taken - leading us the way to the rating curve.
Already in the first two field trip weeks in the Algarve, we enjoyed the delicious Portuguese food (you have to try the Bacalao!), great vitalizing Bicas (little strong coffee shots) and the pleasant atmosphere of the Portuguese way of life.
Here in Praya De Barra, close to Aveiro, we are continuing with the nice combination of "hydrological system thinking" (Let's think HYDROLOGY! ;) ) and the Portuguese life, food and sun (ok, I have to admit: till now we had more clouds than sun here in Aveiro) BUT.....don't forget....the discharge peak will compensate for that :)
Today we lowered at least 21 times the water happer into pocos and noras (typical Portuguese wells) with the overall aim to set up a network of heads in our study area. A nice little salt method rounded our field day off and we headed back home to call it a day while enjoying cold drinks in Cafe Farol next to the lighthouse.
greets, Vanessa
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