Feb 3

Full Moon Party Night! I forgot to mention earlier that the moon is currently full and the tides have been super high and super low. (Duh..) So the Full Moon Party is on tonight. Riki and I went for a nice morning stroll along Fourth Beach and then had a refreshing açai before meeting up with Jo, Paul and 2 others we met in Flori who had just arrived- another Jo, and Rich and chilled on the beach... with plans for caipirinhas made, we spent the rest of the day swimming and reading our respective books. Again - life is tough...
Dinner consisted of the best pizza yet.. crispy thin base with gooey hot cheese. Woodfired in a Ferrari oven, and then we went to the supermarket to buy our supplies - i.e bottles of cachaça, limes, passionfuit and ice. Spu got branded as EVERYONE who owns a hotel seems to want to steal him from us, and then filled and progressively emptied before we hiked through town to the ferry to take us the 15mins to Praia Gamboa to where our full moon party was.
The set up consisted of a marquee tents, a red bull tent, a bar with a bathtub of limes and another of ice. Of course the sand was soft and golden and we walked and danced barefoot all night. The moon itself only made a brief appearance but we knew it was there, and it knew we were there too - high tide came and some of us were dancing in wet sand as it came past the barrier. We danced until the small hours of the morning, meeting lots of foreigners..more memorably two norwegians who are coming to NZ in March who we promised to take out and party with! At 630am with the first sign of light we decided to call it a night (or is that a day?) and climbed aboard a boat to take us back to Morro. It was a hard walk getting up and down the hills at 7in the morning, and boy were we pleased when we hit the joy of our aircon room.