Today was a 13 mile journey, with 1000′ of climbing. We’ve now covered 85 miles and climbed a total of 4,600′.

We were actually surprised yesterday when we realized that today’s journey, the sixth stage, would take us out of Portugal and into Spain!  It just seems like the Camino is passing by too fast!

The first step today was to board the small boat

From there, it’s a one mile ride across the River Minhas to Portugal and the rest of our walk. Well, we made it about half way (just after I snapped this photo)

when the motor on the boat quit! El capitan said,  “no worries” as he grabbed an extra gerry can of gasoline. After filling the tank and attempting to start the engine, he then said, “hmm”. (Not good! ).

He then located his spare battery and hooked that up and the engine fired right up! In the meantime, we’d drifted about a quarter mile. Fortunately, it was up river and not out to sea!

Once ashore, we had a bit of a forest hike

And then out to the ocean for miles of beautiful shore walking.

One final note. On crossing into Spain, we entered the region of Galicia. Galicia does a great job with their Camino signs. Here’s one, indicating that we have 158 kilometers to go!

That’s about 100 miles, for those Americans.