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4. The view from here sometimes benefits from a little judicious cropping. #theviewfromhere #fmsphotoaday
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By day this waterway is busy with many varieties of vessels. Cruiseships, sailboats, ocean liners, ferry boats, and I even spotted a submarine one afternoon. You name it, it sails on this river that connects Lisbon to the Atlantic ocean.
The Tagus (Portuguese: Tejo) is the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula. It is 1,007 km (626 mi) long, 716 km (445 mi) in Spain, 47 km (29 mi) along the border between Portugal and Spain and 275 km (171 mi) in Portugal, where it empties into the Atlantic Ocean near Lisbon. It drains an area of 80,100 square kilometers (30,927 sq mi) (the second largest in the Iberian peninsula after the Douro). The Tagus is highly utilized for most of its course. Several dams and diversions supply drinking water to places of central Spain and Portugal, while dozens of hydroelectric stations create power. Between dams it follows a very constricted course, but after Almourol it enters a wide alluvial valley, prone to flooding. Its mouth is a large estuary near the port city of Lisbon.
The source of the Tagus is the Fuente de García, in the Frías de Albarracín municipal term, Montes Universales, Sistema Ibérico, Sierra de Albarracín Comarca. All its major tributaries enter the Tagus from the right (north) bank. The main cities it passes through are Aranjuez, Toledo, Talavera de la Reina and Alcántara in Spain, and Abrantes, Santarém, Almada and Lisbon in Portugal.
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We set the alarm for 3am to get up and see the total eclipse of the moon. Even when you know in words exactly what's going to happen, it's still quite staggering when you actually see it.
I had to think of this by Rachel Carson to make myself get out of bed. ;P
"We have let Roger share our enjoyment of things people ordinarily deny children because they are inconvenient, interfering with bedtime, or involving wet clothing, or mud that has to be cleaned off the rug. We have let him join us in the dark living room before the big picture window to watch the full moon riding lower and lower toward the far shore of the bay, setting all the water ablaze with silver flames and finding a thousand diamonds in the rocks on the shore as the light strikes the flakes of mica embedded in them. I think that we have felt that the memory of such a scene, photographed year after year in his child's mind, would mean more to him in manhood than the sleep he was losing." from The Sense of Wonder