Memories to the Minister of the Environment, the sand on the beaches, are our brain picker

Yes! That story that has already given rise to stories, telling of Monte Gordo 's need to sell a few kilos of sand to Quarteira Beach, which even earned me some pathetic messages, from people who lost their way in the asphalt of reality, because at the time they called me Mr. Neto Gomes, but whose thesis defended by us, continues to be increasingly clear and a reality of our days.

Over there in Terreiro do Paço, as they used to say – and a permanent June 10th is urgently needed so we can reconnect with the truth. EVERYONE'S truth. It's natural that they lost their papers, and we don't even doubt that the current Minister of the Environment, head of the PSD party list for the Algarve, could have entered college at that time (we're bringing up serious messages from 1996), having completed a normal preschool education and not left any subjects behind…

Furthermore, it's important that we don't let AMAL and Fuzeta beach influence us. This isn't a time to avoid arguments, but it's still a kind of "brain tease."

On December 12, 1996, 29 years had passed, meaning that José Sócrates's titanic struggle had already expired. Jornal do Algarve, with a front-page headline, recalled that: "While the Quarteira breakwaters continue to destroy what remains, the Government gives the green light. Vale do Lobo will have a beach again," in a report by the author of this "Remate Certeiro," which also highlighted: "Five hundred thousand and 750 thousand cubic meters of sand is what will be applied to the Vale do Lobo coastline" so that, starting next summer, one of the world's most famous tourist resorts will have a beach again and, consequently, the entire cliff will be restored. The project will be the responsibility of the Water Institute (we don't even know if the institute still exists today), costing 500 thousand contos, and will be shared equally by the Central Government and the Vale do Lobo Company.

Further on, on page two, Jornal do Algarve explained: […] This is a true engineering feat that has been “stalled” for some time and is now moving forward thanks to the good relationship between Joaquim Vairinhos, Mayor of Loulé, and the Central Administration, as well as the commitment of the Regional Directorate of the Environment (Eng. Valentina Calisto), the Civil Government (Eng. Fialho Anastácio), and the firm intention of “Van Gelder’s” team to carry out the work scheduled for March/April 1997…

Van Gelder, we argue, is a man who has always been ignored by the Loulé City Council. A debt that will have to be paid sooner or later because, in our opinion, we don't want André Jordan to deserve everything and Van Gelder, perhaps because of his foot-stamping, to have died ignored.

We remind you again that 28 years have passed and we even believe that they have lost the papers or are still looking for papers, and therefore, we leave here some more messages that had space in the "impression left by JA, on December 12, 1996…)

Let's move on. For what I already signed, it was already stated that: "The project will be the responsibility of the Water Institute, and the State's participation concerns the artificial silting program for the beach, which involves the deposit of approximately 700,000 cubic meters of sand and represents a rise in the sand level of approximately five thousand meters, over a distance of more than a kilometer. This project is scheduled for completion on May 31st of next year."

Artificially silting up the beach will protect the cliffs from high tides and adverse weather conditions, while also providing the Vale do Lobo community with a 120-meter-wide beach. […]

In turn, and in a primarily technical intervention, Eng. Valentina Calisto would say: "Vale de Lobo is an example of the serious problems that afflict the entire eastern area of Quarteira Beach, with the consequent erosion of the entire coastal zone, to which the Quarteira reefs have contributed, accelerating the entire erosion process... [...]

Valentina Calisto would also speak about a wide range of interventions that are planned for the Algarve, reaffirming that the Barlavento Plan will be implemented and that of the Sotavento, which includes Vale do Lobo, only around mid-1997. "In fact, the intervention in Vale do Lobo is a very special situation and for obvious reasons it deserved the attention of the Government, and the works will begin in March."

We then recorded some statements from Joaquim Vairinhos: "This is the first major intervention on the municipality's coastal front, which, like the entire Algarve coastline, is a kind of jewel in the Algarve's crown. [...]

He would then say: "Algarve tourism thrives on sun and beaches. It's true that we have sunshine, but right now we can't lose the beaches. Therefore, this project is justified, and given our current understanding of the situation, it's urgent to clarify the location of the Quarteira Fishing Port. It's known that an environmental impact study is underway, being conducted by the Civil Engineering Laboratory, to determine whether its location will harm the coast." [...]

Joaquim Vairinhos would also make some considerations about the "Quarteira sauces" and the gravity of the situation, while also referring to a vast intervention along the entire coastline of the municipality, at the same time warning that "it makes no sense to have a parking lot next to the Vilamoura Casino, so we are studying how to prepare that space as a meeting, strolling and dialogue area."

Yes! We know it was a long time ago, so long ago, that the Port of Quarteira was always being built, and thankfully so. A monumental marina has already been built in Albufeira. The Vilamoura Marina has been expanded, and significantly expanded. The Casino parking lots have been expanded three times.

That in Quarteira, the Dunes have already been inaugurated, and there's even a plaque there with António Costa's name. That the entire area that runs from Quarteira to Vilamoura along the "Vala Real" is full of developments as far as the eye can see, and there's even talk of a marina being built at Tor, with a connection via the Ribeira de Quarteira.

But not a peep was heard about these things on June 10th, because if that were the case, certainly, in the always doubtful atmosphere, because everything happened many years ago, this tremendous feeling of doubt about our future would prevail, because either they lost the papers or the current Minister of the Environment, to please both Greeks and Trojans, I think it's more the Greeks, resolved the Fuseta problem and ignored Quarteira.

We feel that, as the Algarve's top candidate, you absolutely must be well-informed. Therefore, it's urgent to evaluate the dossiers so we can determine whether we'll have sandy beaches in eastern Quarteira next year, or whether we'll need to go soak our legs—good for the bones—at the Fonte Santa Monument.

After all, it's always true that it's time to buy a few kilos of sand from Monte Gordo beach.

There are some parrots running around, who think that the Algarve began today and if there were any doubts about its existence, Jornal do Algarve explains, in black and white, because we have the documentary memory, the protagonists and the defenses of the territory that were then being created...

The Minister of the Environment has the floor, as the floor is given, because with the water flowing like this, swallowing up the land and people clapping, we will still have cruise ships arriving at Tor, via the Ribeira de Quarteira.