Praia do Porto Pim — Local services in Horta

The beach is dirty and contaminated with bacteria. While I was there the beach was closed by police because of biological contamination. It is not surprising because the bay is also visual contaminated with plastic and the water is murky. Unluckily the island of Faial this year was also in the grip of "Portuguese man o'war" that is highly poisonous. So no swimming all around the island. A biologist explained me, that this happened every other year. The last two days of my visit I went to Pico that has...

I was stung by jelly fish while swimming, got skin burn and allergic reaction. The lady from the beach staff helped me and provided first aid. The problem is that the warning sign about jelly fish is at the end of the beach, not at the entrance. Also saw 1 dead “caravela portuguesa” (man o war) jelly fish, which is still dangerous even being on the sand, but also no notice from the administration about this. Won’t come to this...

Very good shower block. Nice sand and very shallow sloping beach with basically no waves. You can walk along the edge of the land to get to rocky ledges further away from the sandy beach too. We saw some fish while snorkelling but have seen much more in other places so not great. The water had a lot of algae living in it because it is so warm and shallow and still so the visibility is terrible and it...