April 2012 Hotel Frado.
After been rolled to sleep last night it was a pleasure to move on to Hotel Frado. What a lovely place nice long beach and pretty quiet anchorage between the mainland and a little island. Had a nice 2 hour stroll today and found a supermarket. There is a lot of Condos here on a water way very impressive for the very wealthy most have big power boats in front on the jetty's some up to 100 feet. Lots of house staff working there butts off to maintain these mansions were visible.
To leave a yacht here on a mooring buoy will set you back 400 us dollars a month. Including cleaning of bottom and running the engine.
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27 March 2012 Ilha da Cotia
Just when we were settled in anchor down drink in hand a stink pot arrived and we no longer had the bay to ourselves. Never the less we still enjoyed this lovely spot so secluded and not a ripple on the water. While paddling around the bay close to shore we spotted 2 Turtles swimming along. Later we walked across the island very narrow 15 min max walk and went to snorkel, but a bit disappointed the water was not very clear at all. We stayed for 2 days and had lots of rain and very overcast. Not so good for the batteries so we had to run the engine for 1 hour twice a day to top up.
Anchor up nice and early and we headed to Sandri Island good for snorkeling and diving. It was quiet rolly here the swell was creaping in around the corner of the island, I was not a happy camper.The photo is of schooners in Paraty.
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24 March 2012 A little more about Paraty
Paraty one of the oldest Brazilian Cities , and was a gold loading port on colonial times as well as one of the ports of entry for slaves brought from Africa. The town is a national monument. Will post some photos on the blog when I catch up. On high spring tide days the sea floods the city streets near the harbor. We saw some of it today.
Very successful day today got Bert's computer working again so now he is up and running on wifi. Found a nice supermarket and bought as much as we could possibly carry, will for sure make a return trip tomorrow and stock up a bit more specially on the Beers good prices. We have had some strong winds today at sunset and the aluminum boat dragged anchor for about 100 meters. Tomorrow we will go across the bay to the beach and spend a few days, had enough of the stone streets here . Very uneven and just to much schooner traffic. They do not have good boat handling skills and don't care to much about yachts.
We have got a new propeller on the outboard now since a bush had worn our on the old one after a good couple of years. So now we can get places a lot faster. Also we have been doing Wi fi from the boat with the directional antenna. But unfortunately it is to weak to do skype.
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24 March 2012 A little more about Paraty
Paraty one of the oldest Brazilian Cities , and was a gold loading port on colonial times as well as one of the ports of entry for slaves brought from Africa. The town is a national monument. Will post some photos on the blog when I catch up. On high spring tide days the sea floods the city streets near the harbor. We saw some of it today.
Very successful day today got Bert's computer working again so now he is up and running on wifi. Found a nice supermarket and bought as much as we could possibly carry, will for sure make a return trip tomorrow and stock up a bit more specially on the Beers good prices. We have had some strong winds today at sunset and the aluminum boat dragged anchor for about 100 meters. Tomorrow we will go across the bay to the beach and spend a few days, had enough of the stone streets here . Very uneven and just to much schooner traffic. They do not have good boat handling skills and don't care to much about yachts.
We have got a new propeller on the outboard now since a bush had worn our on the old one after a good couple of years. So now we can get places a lot faster. Also we have been doing Wi fi from the boat with the directional antenna. But unfortunately it is to weak to do skype.
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We arrived here in Paraty two days ago to catch up with email and shopping for the boat. We found at last a WiFi place last night and got a lot done. Also I was lucky to have a new ignition key cut, that broke off on the trip, at a little backstreet store.
The tide caught us out last night. We went into town in the late afternoon and thought the tide was coming in, not so, when we got back a couple of hours later, the dinghy was dry in the mud. OK, so let's go for some dinner and let the tide come in. Two hours later and with full belly's we where back, but the tide was not. It was further out. Now I had to get into the mud and walk her into deeper water and then pick up Michelle further out on the jetty. A Swiss couple had a similar problem with there dinghy and kept her company in the meantime. It was a rather messy affair and the ding needed a lot of cleaning this morning.
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The next morning the 12/3 we left at 10 am to go back to our favorite bay, Sitio Forte. Michelle made me another lovely fish and mussel dinner and we drank a few with our dear ones at home and where ever, that were wishing me a happy one on my big 7. Just another day in paradise and lucky to be doing all the things I love doing.
Don't think it's always a walk on the beach and sundowners. Even my boat and I pride myself with keeping all systems maintained, gives the odd problem at times, that keep me busy between walking on the beach and drinking sundowners. Like the Taktik wind instrument , stops working. I climb up the mast bring it down, works perfect in my hand , okay so I take it back up again , no signal. Then the Alternator stops charging, the rev counter stops working - related problems. I find an old regulator and install it, viola it charges and we have revs again. Hardly ever a dull moment. The hull needs to be cleaned every 2 weeks as the paint is just not good enough to keep the barnacles away.
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