Welcome to the Puxadoiros Island, in the heart of the Ria de Aveiro
"The Ria is an enormous polyp with arms extended through the interior from Ovar till Mira. All the water from the rivers Vouga and Águeda and all the water veins that run in this place to the ocean, flood the low lands, are stuck in the about 40 kms long dune, shaping a series of puddles, channels, lakes and a vast lagoon of salty water. On one side the sea beats and elevates the dune constantly, stopping the water from draining, on the other side man gets together the quicksand and stabilizes it. Then the roots come and help him to stop the never-ending movements of the sand, transforming the puddle into a magnificente road, that gives him the manure and the bread, the fish and the irrigation water. He opens channels and ditches. Plants the corn in the Ria. Populates the flooding land, and due to persistente efforts, he obliges the useless sand to constantly renovate life."... "The Ria also is a place to those that want to discover new land on their boat’s bow and to those that love the Light above everything else. I, for me, simply adore it. I need it more than I need bread. And this is maybe, the point of our land where it achieves its most supreme beauty. On the Ria the air has nervs. The Light hesitates and insists and this atmosphere gives grace to men and women, and even to the things, prettier in the loving and delicate clarity that surrounds them. The light, here, trembles before it lays down..."
Raul Brandão, "The fishermen", 1920 | 
