📅Aug/22 🕒16h30 🌡️25℃ (77℉) 🚶1.9Km (1.2mi.)
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Today we start off our Azores series on the "Yellow Island" of Santa Maria (pop. 5,552).
The Baía de São Lourenço beach town with pristine blue waters and a dark history of Corsair attacks. Since the coast of Santa Maria island is so steep, there's only a handful of spots where pirates wanting to pillage its rich interior could land. This bay was one of them, and land they did. In the early 1600s, the island was the stage of a fierce war between the Spanish crown and rogue pirates. We still come across a flying Jolly Roger flag.
Nowadays the bay is more notorious for its picturesque vineyards and for its large beach with occasional volcanic rocks.
The sand in Santa Maria is mostly white. This is in stark contrast to beaches on other islands of the archipelago, which have dark, volcanic sand, and is a testament to how Santa Maria is the oldest island of the Azores (8.6 million years). It is the one Azorean island with no ongoing volcanic activity, and only here do sedimentary rocks predominate.

Timestamps
00:00 Vineyards by Ilhéu de São Lourenço
02:00 South Beach
04:08 Beach-side Town
06:12 Swimming Pool
07:48 Beach-side Town
08:42 Jolly Roger, Volcanic Rock
11:27 Beach-side Town
14:45 Rocky Shoreline
17:51 Layer of "Lava Pillows"
19:00 Port
21:01 View near Ilhéu S. Lourenço

🎥Camera: Oppo Reno4 Pro (w/ DJI OM 4 gimbal)
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