Jan 20

Waking up to our first glorious day of sunshine in Jericoacoara..lovely except Pieter and I found bed too good especially as Nadine has a bad cold. Riki made friends with people at the breakfast table and boosted on a buggy trip to Tatajuba. Later in the morning we got up and went for an Açai seeing as we missed breakfast. We then wandered down the road to the beach where a swim and a sunbake was in order. The tide had gone out and it was spectacular against the enormous yellow sand dunes set against verdant palm trees. Nice..
So while the Team took one on their pillows I made the best of a sunny day and boosted it by buggy with some Brazilians in need of a partner in crime. With driver on hand we moved our way down the beach and into the vast horizon of sand dunes and ´tealy´shaded ocean.
Our first stop gave us the option of taking a boat and viewing sea-horses, something we side-skipped and instead kept moving. Here; there were literally floating planks of wood over a lagoon ferrying across the various buggies and 4x4 by pole. Pretty insane especially with the setting of wind-abused palm trees, minimal shacks and sand. Absolutely shatteringly beautiful. Once across we roared towards a sprinkling of huts selling coconuts and beer and had a refreshing stop along with the locals working there, their donkeys and few random and coconut attacking pigs and piglets!!!. After this the sand dunes just got bigger and the landsape more dramatic. At one point we stopped on top of a perfect dune where no doubt in the rainy season clear pools form, imaginations was let to picture it as there was nothing but dried out pondscum. The effect of shadows alone made such differences the scenery- only complaint at this point was the strong wind and the lack of team to make the most of the sand-boarding on offer. SO yeah the final stop was somewhat of an oasis amidst the sand....a lagoon bordered by various huts selling fresh seafood and hammocks neatly hanging in the water ´just so´ .A very welcome concept with the scorching heat beating down on us. I managed to sleep sprawled across a table and then in the hammock for the majority of our stop only to wake conveniently in time for some prawns and tropical plums- YUM. So we BUGgered back towards Jeri and I was deighted to find the team alive and active. Not long athereafter we got picked up to go out to a place with a pool and buffet lunch. Not quite all you can eat- satisfied all the same we settled into the pool and made it our task to disarm the actual children of their pool noodles. Between splashes and slices and a ´first´dip we re-disovered our tiredness and napped on the warm tiles. Waking to the sunset we got delivered back to the hostel in a rather bizarre set-up one family jeep and 10 Spanish speaking people later we did our own thing at the hostel.
AND THEN>........................... we had our watermelon eating competition. That´s right one melon, the tripod(a.k.a the team and a lot of ganas)- recipe for laughter and a mess. People...we will be posting a link shortly to YouTube so that you too can share in the experience of our skill and idiocy. After devouring the melon through all forms possible and imaginable -covered in juice we took to washing our clothes...Naturally all in a teamly manner- conveyor belt in action we made easy work of the clothes and yesss collapsed bloated and bubbling with watermelon into our beds. Yet another Saturday that we are choosing sleep. I guess though one can only have so much fun in one day.
Ten points for the seal Pieter- you made our day!
Who´d do that?