Praia do Barril by accident.

Imagine a sunny sunday after weeks of rainy and cloudy weather... First thing we thought about: leave the house, and so we did. After lunch we decided to go west, without any specific destination, only the direction was defined in our heads.
In a place like Algarve, is difficult to know all the beaches from Sagres to Vila Real de Santo António but the best places we thought that we knew... Lie...
Before arriving to Tavira, we saw a sign to "Praia do Barril". Nuno heard about it before, but never went there, neither Martyna. "Let's give it a try", we thought, and we stopped there.
First interesting thing: the access. The acess is made by a narrow floating bridge where is not possible to walk aside other person. Bridge crossed and we saw the second interesting thing: a train station with a really funny small train. We thought that in winter it would be deactivated. Wrong. It was working and transporting people through the railroads to the beach. At this point we found out that we would have a quite long walk in Ria Formosa.
After 15 minutes walking, we arrived to the beach, hundreds of meters of sand only with the ocean in the horizon. Looking at one of the maps of the place, we read that there would be somewhere a anchor cementary. We could imagine by the name what it would be, but we didn't knew what to expect. We walked a bit more on the sand and we saw what was it about. Around one hundred anchors on the sand, reminding a cementary. That place was used as a tuna fishermen shelter that now is deactivated. From those boats capturing the tuna migrating from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean sea, only these Anchors stayed.