Thus far, every photographer I have featured on here has been found via the Creative Commons, and their photos made available there....

I've thrown a lot of digital spaghetti at the online, virtual wall in at attempt to make something stick. For many years I made...

The new, experimental version of Google Earth has seized my attention and will not let it go. I was using it to zoom around the Algarve...

Carl Munson, of the Good Morning Portugal! podcast/YouTube channel, recently came up with the idea of collecting examples of bad real...

I haven't used Google Earth for at least four months. Google Maps suited my purposes, and I liked aspects of its functionality. About a...

69,000 € - 5 bedroom, 2 bathroom, 739 m² built/300 m² floor/5,620 m² plot. Tavern/grocery on the ground floor. Water source. Land has...

It's funny how often the photos used to sell property in Portugal are abysmal in either their execution, their subject matter, or both....

I will be using Weather Spark a lot in the future as a source of weather and climate data for just about any city or town, anywhere. Very...

33,000 € - 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom, 176 m² built/70 m² floor area/plot of 4,467 m². 10 minute walk to Rio Unhais, 6 minute drive to Rio...

If you stood on the edge of the Ria Formosa estuary and looked out over the shallow water, mud flats, and small scraps of islands, you...

A recent session with Google Maps turned up a couple of mysteries for me. First, the above tracks in the mud off of Ilheu do Alcorao, on...

A recent session with Google Maps turned up a couple of mysteries for me. First, the above tracks in the mud off of Ilheu do Alcorao, on...

I put this map together from four screen grabs in Google Maps, stitching them together painfully (long, boring story) using Gimp as my...

It turns out I am a very silly man. Please disregard all the entry below the dashed line. Well, read it if you like, it's entertaining I...

manjerix is a bit of a puzzle. They joined Flickr in 2007, last uploaded in 2010. There are only around 400 or so photos on their Flickr...

In September, 2005, Lisa and I spent two weeks in Portugal, about half of that in Lagos. These photos are all by me. Later, I'll post our...

PROPERTY # 1: Rural property in northern Silves. 185,000 €, 4 bedroom, 2 bathroom, 133 m² built/plot of 7,720 m² (2 acres). Near the...

"Tavira is one of the gems of the eastern Algarve. Straddling the River Gilão and the River Segua, its gentle charm and predominantly...

Why the Algarve? | My Guide Algarve - "Come winter or summer the Algarve brims with activity, making it one of our favourite...

(*Edit: Feb 25, 2022 - Please see a more recent update about OKPortugal and other vloggers in the area.) Ken and Gina have accomplished...