Jan 08

Today the sea was beautifully calm - the first time since we arrived due to a high moon tide, consequently Team Ray went for a swim from our hostel steps (its right on the beach) to the fishing boats. Glorious in the early morning. This was followed by our wonderful hostel breakfast, and a walk along the beach with 3 Ray members...Riki, Santha and Nadine.
Riki and I had a brainwave and went and bought a 12kg Watermelon to soak with Cachaça (sugar cane spirit) and the walk back from the supermarket was the longest 500m of Nadine´s life. A rotund 12kg watermelon is not the easiest thing to carry!
We set about filling it with cachaça and left it to soak while Beanie and Riki walked to Praia Matadieros for a swim and a vicious game of beach bats with Baywatch inspired dives and runs featuring. David Hasselhoff eat your heart out. We headed home and had a nice shower, Jackson a friend of Riki´s who she met in a hostel in Chile had joined the hostel roster and the Rays and J decided pizza was the dinner desire. So after a melon inspection, ´banter´(aka Dan´s euphemism for abusing Riki) and a lot of doubt over how the melon was going to turn out we relocated ourselves down the road and eagerly awaited three pizzas- making compromises and finding flavours everybody wanted.
We then bought some limes, something sweet, ice and came home to find after an exceptional team effort that the watermelon cachaça/ caipirinha creation was infact very tasty.
Various finger games and a farewell on ´P´point we went to bed not without a fight. D and R took to a water fight that was of premium quality with low blows which left both parties wet, wet, wet and with soap and toothpaste smeared everywhere.