p82 "At long last dawn broke."
p83 "As soon as it was light Gerry and I resumed our search."
p83 "The most striking thing about this is we were all alone."
This history is problematic for me. I have been out in Luz around dawn on multiple occasions, and never once have I experienced such emptiness.
It is a time when the older ex-pats get an early morning stroll in. It is a time when the dog-walkers socialise on the beach. It is a time when the câmara workers clear the front up before the majority of early morning ex-pats/tourists mess it up again. It is a time when the rubbish lorries are trying to clear central bins in Luz before traffic makes it harder. It is a time when the early-morning cafés are setting up for business. If the Habana ever gets its webcam working properly again, you can check when its set-up squad goes into work. I've seen them active before dawn.
It is a very sociable time. It is considered extremely rude to not exchange conversation with these early morning people. It is almost like a club - we are the owners of the madrugada (dawn, early morning).