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00:00:17In the deep wood we go looking for places
00:00:21that marked the history of this
00:00:24land. We are looking for places where
00:00:28people, on the one hand, benefited from
00:00:32nature to settle there, also
00:00:35that same nature was quite
00:00:39stepmotherly, forcing them to
00:00:41sacrifices and in the case of
00:00:44the cleric, people lived here,
00:00:48people were born here, but it is a
00:00:50place that in the past was quite
00:00:54isolated, today it is
00:00:56considered a paradisiacal place.
00:01:39Even in my grandfather's time, my father's father used to say that he was called Ponta do Clergio, Clergio was
00:01:42at the time of Marquiste Pombal
00:01:46when he wanted to brush his colleges,
00:01:49refuges for any point of the wood or in the Azores for
00:01:53any part of the world to close and one settled up there at the
00:01:57head of Ponta do Colério and had a horse.
00:02:30even my brother would come here until the sixth vintage
00:02:32and
00:02:36it's special because we spent our childhood here,
00:02:40this climate, this environment, this
00:02:43nature, uh, the sounds, the
00:02:46seeing of the shearwaters, it always stayed in my memory, I was away
00:02:50for so many years, but I couldn't wait for the day to come back
00:02:54here, and we are in
00:02:57Funchal, when we want...
00:03:00to relax, walk away from that noise, pack
00:03:03a picnic, we go to Ponta dos Colérios, and we spend a
00:03:07day here, my friend's husband will be doing a little
00:03:10farming, we plant, we have fruit
00:03:13trees, anyway, it's a wonderful day that we spend here.
00:03:49places that are 30 cm
00:03:55My grandparents already had a farm here, I
00:03:58used to come when I was a little kid, but... my grandmother when she was 7
00:04:01years old, I still remember there being people living here
00:04:05inside, at least five families lived
00:04:08here, they made a living with seven or eight children, and inside these caves is
00:04:11here which is followed by that
00:04:14cabin, there is what used to be Manuel da Abria's, a cousin
00:04:18of mine has it,
00:04:21a stick spindle rooms all inside the house
00:04:25all made in the rock, I don't have anything made outside with a knot
00:04:28inside, all carved in the rock. Inside is
00:04:31the old woman's clock, good houses are good houses, these
00:04:35were the houses where they lived. The
00:04:38clog was born here, babies in the
00:04:41caves, the ladies embroidered the tablecloth
00:04:45eh they stayed here embroidering and the men went fishing but there was never
00:04:48any fishing or anything it was a sad thing
00:04:52and they had to fetch water to consume from a rock that was the only
00:04:56spring that existed with scene it was well there was
00:05:00no other remedy, they had to live, but it was really a very
00:05:04harsh survival, if we lived
00:05:07for years in times of crisis, in Salazar's
00:05:11time. Yes, sir, so then Father Cardoso Deusha, who was the priest of
00:05:14Santana, there were some
00:05:18expeditions and the priest managed to get a piece of land there with the
00:05:21ditch to go out to bring those people from the
00:05:23law,
00:05:32my family cultivated here and so I started coming with them here
00:05:36to the clerics and I was attracted to this since
00:05:39I was young, since I was 10 or 12 years old.
00:05:42that's why
00:05:46I love this and
00:05:49so I started with the old ones, I saw some
00:05:53perfect caves, not like this one, but beginnings
00:05:57of caves, and it encourages me a little, to continue
00:06:01with a little of that work of the old ones, it's a bit of a hard work,
00:06:04but it calls my attention a lot, I think it fits with
00:06:07nature, it doesn't leave nature much, that's what also
00:06:10makes me be in this business almost
00:06:25an immigrant from 10 years from 16 to
00:06:2927 more or less and but
00:06:32my dream was always to come back here, of course who doesn't want to come back
00:06:35here.
00:06:49I dreamed so much that I started to make little farms and buy,
00:06:52everything I have here is what I acquired
00:06:55working day by day for it and buying and so on, this was my dream
00:06:59was to come back here again but with other conditions to have a fight
00:07:02and to
00:07:03have
00:07:12ready.
00:07:17day by day I work in agriculture,
00:07:21I plant onions, garlic, all that stuff and I also rest, I look at
00:07:24the landscape,
00:07:27well, I keep myself entertained there, but I live from
00:07:30agriculture, the base is agriculture, this gives
00:07:33grapes, it gives bananas, it gives papayas, it gives everything we plant here
00:07:37inside, it's a shame it was
00:07:40forgotten for a while.
00:08:02I have some little animals here, I used to have some cows, I used to have some goats, now I have some
00:08:06pigs and I come here, I can't do without
00:08:09coming, I really like it, I wouldn't be happy without...
00:08:12this little corner, I like it, but this little corner
00:08:15here
00:08:20Ponta do Clérigo is the third most
00:08:23northern point of Madeira Island, that
00:08:26is, it is the third most
00:08:29northern point and it is also the
00:08:33final point next to the sea of Clerigo
00:08:36and that is why several
00:08:40generations of people passed through here in...
00:08:42access to the
00:08:44coastline
00:08:48was difficult, the senses also
00:08:52suffered also dangerous but
00:08:55also loaded it was dangerous that if there was a problem no one
00:08:58there is no chance there are
00:09:02wide not much more but the
00:09:04old people could still do it, now for the younger people it is more
00:09:08complicated.
00:09:18it's already hard for me to go down there the day I go down there, I'll go
00:09:22down in case I can't walk, that
00:09:25ditch doubles your hand up like this, it's not
00:09:29like that and
00:09:31now at this height we have to sit on the ground to descend and
00:09:35we need to put our knees if it's safer to
00:09:38descend if your feet slip you can go
00:09:41headfirst and if not if not we always come
00:09:45more my father at 82 years old still came
00:09:48here, my father at 75 years old by the hour and I already said
00:09:52father, father, it's no longer a thing to go to the rock, father, you can't stand it anymore, don't
00:09:56go there, you know what he answered me? When I go there I feel the patches
00:10:11some were very difficult to access, it was really
00:10:14complicated, but there was even the part of the
00:10:18boots, now we managed to acquire
00:10:21some volunteers and so we are going with that to...
00:10:25ahead we managed to clear all the access, it's much more accessible,
00:10:52our hikes have some risk, but that's what we like.
00:10:55Always discovering, more and more of Madeira, discovering
00:10:59inhospitable places, places of unique
00:11:03mirage, that's what we like and when we think
00:11:06it deserves to be a cable with some degree of
00:11:09difficulty, we mark it and there we go then to spend a
00:11:12little while without any certainty.
00:11:32We are going to leave this in a way that is accessible to anyone, it is
00:11:36not a makeshift, it is accessible to anyone and that's what we are doing,
00:11:50I am very proud of the people of Sendir and that we
00:11:53achieved this conquest of opening the... path was very
00:11:56important for me, as it is important for everyone here nearby and even for
00:12:00foreigners, it is a truly phenomenal thing.
00:12:32The Canoa House is a mythical place
00:12:36in Ponta dos Clérigos.
00:12:39It reflects the art and ingenuity that
00:12:42people had in the past to
00:12:45satisfy their needs. In this specific
00:12:49case, it was a fishing
00:12:51cove. Here improvisations were made. The
00:12:55hoists, as well as a
00:12:58platform to house several
00:13:02canoes, they say that
00:13:05five canoes were
00:13:07here, in a place that has no
00:13:11access to the sea by a beach, even if it is a
00:13:14pebble beach, this place here reflects
00:13:18the art and ingenuity that people had
00:13:21to satisfy their food
00:13:25needs, that is, it was from
00:13:27here that they fished the fish that
00:13:30fed them in their homes
00:13:33and
00:13:37I remember sleeping to arrive with the boat full of fish
00:13:41stranded there, I still have a photo there, there were also
00:13:45many neighbor ladies, they also had a boat
00:13:48they also brought fish, the sustenance at that
00:13:52time for most of these people... who lived
00:13:55here was fish, I preferred to come here to
00:13:59here, Santana, bean of Mora and Santa here
00:14:02preferred to buy the place for the
00:14:05boat down
00:14:06there,
00:14:14and I bought it when I was 12 years old, look, the shape of the
00:14:17boat is still there, but it's not good
00:14:21at all.
00:14:25The boat had had been made, it was a hand crank,
00:14:29a roller, it was
00:14:32slow, with the hand crank we could
00:14:36lift the boat, it became light for us, here it's already
00:14:39a big boat for us to lift it there, it was already a
00:14:434.5 boat, it's already a boat that has a
00:14:46mattress - a person rests at night by the
00:14:49kingdom so that
00:14:52night the shearwaters go and...
00:15:29The Cleric in the parish of Faial begins
00:15:33at its highest point in a peak
00:15:36called the peak. of the doll and this peak
00:15:39with an average altitude of about 530
00:15:43m is on the north coast, the
00:15:46highest promontory over the coastline
00:15:49and it is the second after Cabo
00:15:53Girão, there is a
00:15:56viewpoint which is the viewpoint of Pico da Boneca, from
00:15:59which you can see a landscape that goes
00:16:03from Ponta de São Lourenço to Porto
00:16:06Santo.
00:17:11Below the clerics, or using
00:17:13the Madeiran regionalism, below
00:17:17the doll's peak, which is the highest
00:17:20point of the clerics, there is an islet which
00:17:24is known by two names, the Widow's
00:17:27Islet, when seen from a
00:17:30distance, because it looks like a woman with her hood on
00:17:33her head, or by another name, the
00:17:37Ship's Rock, this view that gives it the name Ship's
00:17:41Rock, it is necessary to come to this
00:17:44place to understand why the
00:17:48ancients gave this name to this
00:17:51islet,
00:17:57the Widow's Islet or Ship's Rock represents a testimony of the
00:18:01geological formations of the intermediate volcanic complex, namely the...
00:18:05Porta Cruz unit, which
00:18:09we estimate to be around 4 million years old. In
00:18:13reality, what we are seeing now in the formation
00:18:16of this islet is due to the essentially
00:18:20erosive action and destructive and
00:18:23shaping capacity of the landscape, made by the
00:18:27sea, which ended up isolating this
00:18:30portion, currently an islet, which was previously
00:18:34connected to the primitive structure of the
00:18:36island. here well represented by this
00:18:39vertical rocky escarpment to subvertical
00:18:43with small deposits of beaches and small beaches
00:18:47along the coast.
00:18:50behind me we can see a
00:18:53passage established in the middle of the rock, those
00:18:57crossed sticks are what we call a
00:19:00"pinguela", or rather, it is an
00:19:03improvised bridge through a stick. This
00:19:06pinguela, which we can still observe
00:19:10today, represents the art and
00:19:13ingenuity of people who wanted to have access to
00:19:17the sea to be able to fish, given that
00:19:20here on the north coast the sea is quite
00:19:23stormy, they created a shelter
00:19:27for their boat in a
00:19:29cave, in a grotto that exists and is visible
00:19:33here on the islet of the ship's
00:19:35rock. it had been on the day when the tide
00:19:39was dry in the afternoon dry in the morning for us to go out and if the
00:19:42tide is high it's impossible to go out just to nothing when it was impossible to
00:19:46go out it also gave fish it also gave fish but I didn't go many
00:19:50times and to sleep there at night without a mattress we
00:19:53would sleep there on the floor because it was more our backs
00:19:57were
00:19:59we fished here outside the ship's
00:20:03rock, fish up to São Jorge over there at the mouth of the São Jorge
00:20:06river. "The boat sometimes came half full of fish, half full of fish
00:20:10then to bring it from the college point up was in the sixth vintage
00:20:13and it was heavy to climb the rock, it consists of lowering your back
00:20:17the
00:20:21cleric with its cliffs or
00:20:24sea cliffs or over the
00:20:27sea constitutes a refuge
00:20:31and nesting point for
00:20:33our well-known shearwater or pardela.
00:20:37which is called by the people of
00:20:40Caniçal, there because of opening the
00:20:44shearwaters begin to arrive here, forming
00:20:48pairs and nesting.
00:20:50creating in this place a unique
00:20:54atmosphere at nightfall, during the night
00:20:57and in the
00:20:58morning,
00:21:03we'll stay two for tomorrow to hear the shearwaters, because it's at this
00:21:07time that they are, so my father
00:21:10taught all the seasons for them to come
00:21:13and sing.
00:21:25"she comes to lay, then she takes the baby,
00:21:28then while he is, then they all walk
00:21:32then they only come back a year later to the same
00:21:36place,
00:21:40throughout this program we came to the
00:21:43cleric to show all
00:21:46of you this unique place in our..."
00:21:50Madeira. We came here to show you
00:21:54its nature, its unique
00:21:57landscape. We found people
00:22:01who are its guardians.
00:22:04We talked to them and heard their stories.
00:22:08I hope that now in your homes, after
00:22:12seeing the images that are shown
00:22:15here, you dare to come
00:22:18here. observe this
00:22:21place, have the experience of seeing a
00:22:25unique place so that not only those who
00:22:29visit us benefit from this space and
00:22:43this is now a place frequented by many tourists,
00:22:47they all say it's a beautiful place. you are
00:22:51lucky to have this corner here,
00:22:54I hope you don't ruin
00:22:58it, but I think it will be much more
00:23:00developed,
00:23:03we have a very disarming view here that
00:23:06on the rest of the north coast we don't find a view like
00:23:10this,
00:23:13what more could I want than this, this is all this, this
00:23:17is breathing pure oxygen.
00:23:22It was made here like a shearwater, which is born
00:23:26here, goes around the world, but always comes to see where it was born and I am the same.