Madeira Island -

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Our first Canary Island was Madeira on December 4, 2025. The Island is Portuguese

and has a population of 250,000 and is 286 square miles in size.

Our ship, the Queen Anne, was the only cruise ship in port.

We first walked down a
street in the old part of town.

The doorways were interesting.
This is a scabbard fish.

St Mary

The entrance to the Market.

The flower lady dressed in traditional Portuguese dress.

Vegetables and fruit for sale.

Many of the fruit were new to us.

The fish market.

Scabbard fish, considered a delicacy.

The brown fish are Dogfish.

Always street vendors.

We tour the islands
Botanical Garden.

Flower art in the garden.

Typical early home in the farming area a hundred or more years ago.

Cissus vine plant. There were many flowered blossoms we had never seen before.

Stonecrop

Marigold

Rhododendron

Creeping Oxeye

Golden Chalice Vine

Megaskepasma

View from the Botanical Garden.

The city had a gondola ride to
the top of a mountain.

A yacht in the harbor.