Baia Norte Othon Classic Florianopolis

We will post trip information here as soon as it starts. For 2010, we will continue planning the project and look for Sponsors that are willing to invest and support the Project. All indications in that regard is ...

5 days and 4 nights in FlorianopolisBackpackers Sunset.
leave on the the afternoon of the 28th on the below flight,

28th
JJ
3418

Florianópolis
16:15, Monday

Rio de Janeiro(Galeão)
17:45, Monday

I am right now in the South of Brazil, colonized mainly by europeans (Germans, italians...) I took a night bus to Floripa (12 h) and there is a good place to visit some beaches in the Santa catarina island.
After these days I will be in the NGO doing the reforestation project, for two weeks. However I have some days before fliying back to Europe. I may be visit Iguaçu falls (Depending on money, of course)

I have some pics from today! New SD card!

... west side of the bay with people casting out all day, and catching significant sized fish too. At night they use lumious floats with live bait and the results are even better! From the beach all you can see right now... half ten at night are red, yellow, white, blue and green points of light stretching loosely around the rocky area beside the beach. When they cast, its almost like a firework of some description. It just never stops.... Yestdersday, after ...

Vince and I woke up to a wonderful bright day, we had some breakfast and then decided to hit up Barra De Lagoa beach which was a short 20 minute walk from where we were. The beach is well known for its 14km stretch of fine, white sand that stuck to you like honey with sun screen. On our way to the beach, we visited a Sea Turtle reservation  park. We got to see and take pictures of a variety of sea turtles, the conservation is designed to ...

... the base was nice and thick and eaten with olive oil it was delicious. Leticia picked me up at arround 10pm to go to a Samba night. The female lead singer was fantastic and I got a chance to try some samba dancing. Apparently the key to Samba is to feel the music and enjoy it. The samba was on the roof of a bar over-looking the beach near the backpackers at Barra da Lagoa; a gorgeous setting for a really fun night.

... before. Also like Kansas, there's a lot of really fair-skinned people here from all the European immigrants (I woulda picked Vermont in my analogy but some Vermonters are pretty hard to understand, anyone heard of Fred Tuttle? no? ask a Vermonter). In fact, there's a town a couple hours from Floripa where everyone speaks German still. Unfortunately, I haven't had time to go there yet. So, back to the portuguese, all the teachers are young ladies in their 20s ...

The Brazilians are a truly unique, gorgeous, unhelpful, colourful, flirtatious, football-loving race. The extremely skinny women seem to have lots of time and money to spend on their looks - most wear super high heels or platforms that elongate their legs even more and make them seem unhuman. They even know how to walk with them ...

... and therefore no one except a handful of others are here - and they´re here for surfing. Oh well. Even though it´s freezing cold, this little beach town always does more fishing than anything else. I think I´ve seen more fishermen than actual non-surfer tourists right now. So I think I´ll head into the city for the next day or two instead of just staying on the beaches. I love being able to sit in ...

... gegen Nachmittag dort eingetrudelt und mir war schon ein bisschen mulmig, weil es bereits dunkel wurde und ich immer noch keine Unterkunft hatte. Die Insel schien total leblos und ich dachte schon, ich haette wohl lieber nicht herkommen sollen. Ich entschied mich, in der Pousada Mar & Sol abzusteigen, weil ringsrum viele Geschaefte, Bars und Restaurants waren und dort zumindest etwas Leben war. Die Pousada war direkt am Meer gelegen, ein ...