Cabedelo

A rivermouth sandbank at the mouth of the Mondego, shaped by the harbour jetty into one of the longest left-handers in Portugal. On a solid north-west swell the wave runs for hundreds of metres down the sandbar, fast and workable rather than hollow. It is a genuine rivermouth setup, so the bank shifts with the river and the sand pumping — some seasons it is world class, others it is ordinary. Strong current beside the jetty.