'The Sand Pit' Algarve, Portugal

The soft sandstone rocks here on the Algarve were easily worn away by sea, huge carvings of spectacular shapes ate into the coastline. Here, the sea had channelled a gorge into a huge pit and every surge from the waves looked like a village water pump filling the pit.

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The soft sandstone rocks here on the Algarve were easily worn away by sea, huge carvings of spectacular shapes ate into the coastline. Here, the sea had channelled a gorge into a huge pit and every surge from the waves looked like a village water pump filling the pit.