Carcavelos + Baleal + Azores (Portugal)

BLUE! Light blue, dark blue, baby blue, clean blue, smiley blue, what mattered was to wear something in blue, wasn’t it the day of the BIG BLUE MARCH. An event taking place around the world with a single purpose to send a message to the 72 governments gathered at Anchorage, Alaska for the 59th annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), the body that regulates and manages the whaling activity around the world. The IWC meeting takes place from the 28th to 31st of May, 2007.

The day here was cloudy and rainy, and since most actions were planned for beach sites, it was going to dictate how successful we would be. Plus, there was an important football game on; the final of the Portuguese Cup, in which of the teams had a blue uniform, so some of the people involved in the big blue march were thought to be supporters from that same team.

The Portuguese leg of the Big Blue March was divided into 3 fronts; one at Baleal, Peniche; another at Carcavelos, Lisbon; and other at Ponta Delgada, Azores.