The 23. June is the day of days in the San Joaninas Festival. The most beautiful and longest procession takes place in the evening and morning two there are sardines “for free” in the “Rua de São João” for all , that have endured until then.

In the morning we had before but something else. Because we've got so far still no whale to face, We wanted to help a bit to and drive around 8: 30 for the whale-watching. Während der Festwoche wurden für die Touren sogar spezielle Rabatte gegeben 🙂

A small fishing boat, it went out off the coast. Unfortunately, the Lake was out quite wavy and you could really see anything. However, we had some luck and saw two rare Risso dolphins. Our guide had us this way as “Michael Jackson Dolphin” explains: He is black in the world and is always white in the course of his life and he doesn't have a nose also. I will probably never forget that :-). Unfortunately, these dolphins are very shy and was not to have a photo. Darauf hätten wir vielleicht noch eine weitere Ähnlichkeit mit Michael Jackson gefunden 🙂

Whales are not swimming but again us on the way. We are but keep your eyes open. At some point it will already work.

For Wednesday, a good weather window for our journey arose after Santa Maria. Da Santa Maria is one of the smaller islands, We filled our fridge in Angra again. Dietmar saw an old man with vans on the port, the seemingly fish sold, He wanted to get us to even which. So he went and asked, If you could buy fish? “No” was the answer. He would sell no fish because money means nothing to him. He had 26 Worked years in Canada, is now retired and wants only health. And she could give him probably bad Dietmar. Then he put four beautiful fish in a plastic bag and gave it with a recommendation to Dietmar, as most would be to prepare. There was even the boss speechless :-). A things happen here on the Azores, die man sich nicht vorstellen kann 🙂 und das nur im positiven Sinne. So Dietmar thanked warmly, wish him health and trotted home with the fish.

Our refrigerator has been so jam-packed, that the first two fish directly in the Pan had to migrate.

After the delicious, fresh dinner we wandered one last time through the city. In this way we wanted even Ann of the SY RESTING GOOSE “Goodbye” say, the moment not on the boat, but on land he was. Unfortunately, we were too late and no one was more at home. It was time for us, a place on the parade route to seek. Today, the city was still full as the evenings before.

The groups, you are in the official San Joaninas moving with it, magnificent and elaborate costumes and are surprisingly large. During the whole parade was sung and danced. You could clearly see some, How exhausting the number is actually. Good, that the road is not quite as long, sonst hätte man am Ende bestimmt ein Sauerstoffzelt aufstellen müssen 🙂

Between the different groups are usually longer distances, get the music group doesn't get in the way. The later the evening was, the more Feierlustige was followed by music and dancing left out on the street.

We decided to, couldn't hold out until morning to two and to forego the free sardines. We bought us yet a delicious dessert at a bar: Curros with sugar and cinnamon. Danach stand uns Beiden jetzt mehr der Sinn 🙂

Und wieder war die Zeit auf einer Insel fast vorüber 🙁 Es hätte noch so viel zu entdecken gegeben, but called Santa Maria with the great dive sites, and the weather was perfect. So we listened to the last evening concert and let the others wild until the morning celebrate. Wir würden dann die nächste Nacht zum Tage machen 🙂 Allein auf der SUMMER mitten auf dem Atlantik.