Monthly Archives: July 2009

Itaparica Island

The trip is getting better with the time been. This time we went to ITAPARICA Island, it’s a island 30 min from Bahia’s capital Salvador in a small boat.

It was a sort of adventure, because one hotel guy, a native from the island, asked if we he could go with us and show everything. So we accepted and we did everything as native from the island… not with the fancy boats and cars that most tourists use.

After we got the 30 min boat we arrived here:

Itaparica port

After that we got into a 50 years old VW-Kombi … look the inside… it was quite an experience :p

It was intense 30 minutes inside this “car”

But all these was worth while when we arrived and saw this:

This is the kind of beach that don’t have any waves and it’s warm. The afternoon was perfect and we had a good time… We also had some nice views that I’m gonna share with you.

As you know, we are good soccer players ANYWHERE, lol.

Well there is a lot to show, so take a look in the slideshow below.

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Tamar Project

We had very busy these last few days! So I couldn’t post anything. We went to a beach around 150km from Salvador there has a very interesting project called TAMAR. It’s a project that wants to save the turtles!
After we went there we learned somethings about turtles of course. For example, there are seven species of turtle in the world, and in Brazil we only have five. From these five, we actually saw only four, because the one called Leather Turtle only appears in the southeast of Brazil.

Here we have a picture with some hulls from the turtles we can find in Brazil:

We can see from the right to left: Olive, Green and Leather turtles.

The beach have a very nice infra-structure, and because of that we found there a lot of “gringos”… Nice stores, hotels, and it’s a very clean place and interesting to go.

We were lucky that when we arrived they were giving a turtle back to the sea. They treated a turtle that got taken by a fishing net, and tagged to take care of it during it’s life. So here is a picture of the turtle “walking” back to the sea.

So cute :p

We learned that turtles only step in the sand once in their lives, when they are born. After that they only come back to the sand if they are female to spawn. So these little turtle “walked” in the sand the second time in it’s life, so it had some difficulties 😛

Visit the project it’s totally worth it.  If you ever consider coming to Salvador, this is a tour that can’t be forgotten.

Hope you liked it, Obrigado, ttyl.

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Flamengo Beach, Salvador.

After a year and a half finally I had a “beach day”. We went to a very nice one located in the north of Salvador called “Flamengo Beach”. It was a 1 hour bus trip but totally worth it.

We got nice chairs, beach umbrella and stayed on the beach from 10 a.m to 5 p.m. The sea was a bit cold, but a little bit after noon the sea went back a little and it created “natural pools” incredibly nice to swim and calm.


This is a picture of Carol coming out from one of them.

We had some culinary experiences too. We had the famous “Grilled cheese in a stick” it’s delicious and kinda cheap. We also ate some Crab Pasteis…

Grilled cheese, nhamy.

It was a fun and calm day on the beach. Tomorrow we are going to see SEA TURTLES 😀 I hope the place it’s open.

See ya

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Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

Here we go, summer again. In the “winter” here during the day the lowest temperature is 28ºC. So imagine where everybody were?

This is one small beach by the city of Salvador

My mother and stepfather joined me and Carol today. We walked on the beach and all along the shore. The lighthouse is very nice here and there are TONS of people today.


You can see the lighthouse in the back.

Today we walked in Pelourinho, the place MICHAEL JACKSON recorded a video clip of the song “They don’t care about us”.

Here we are in the central spot of place he recorded the song.

To finish the day in great “Baiano” style we ate a SHRIMP MIX, it was incredible, 4 kinds of shrimp and nice sidings.



Tomorrow we are going to stay on a beach a little longer… hopefully gonna get some tan :p

Ah, you can see more pictures clicking HERE.

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Living during Fall/Winter

This month completes 14 months that I’m “stuck” on only two seasons. I don’t know what is beach for more than a year and a half now. But this is going to change! Today I’m getting into an airplane and going to the northeast of Brazil… this means that I’m flying around 4 hours and my scenario will change quite a bit. In Salvador it’s summer the whole year, while here in Porto Alegre it’s around 5 degrees now, in Salvador it’s around 27º!!!

This is the trip I’m doing today:

It’s a little bit more than 3.000 km. Probably worth it.

This is the first time I’m going to the northeast of Brazil, so I don’t have any picture to show… but I hope that this week I get back my writing here. So here it’s only a preview of what is expecting me. I know you, Canadians, are not that jealous… but I’m sure my friends here are hehehe, just kidding.

This is a famous elevator in the shore.

So get to go… I will post more during this next 10 days. See ya.

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