James Wilding - Rio de Janerio - Santos (10th

Rio de Janerio - Santos (10th - 31st July 2007)

Created on Wednesday, 1. August 2007.

Tags: sea, rio, beach, cruise, paradise, yacht, Sailing, boat, sail

What a cruisers paradise.

My expectations of Brazil…well, I didn’t have any. Never really gave it much
thought. It was merely a country on our way somewhere else.
We have been tootling around here for about a month (completely lost track
of time) and it has been fantastic.

It feels like we have barely scratched the surface in this immense bay of
hundreds of islands. They say 365, one for each day of the year. More than
that, each one has umpteen stunningly beautiful coves and beaches and it
would take years to explore them all. From our first stop we have said “this
is the best” only to repeat that phrase over and over almost on a daily
basis. In recalling a place one of us has said “….at your favourite stop…”
“the one with the church?”,
“church, what church?”
“with the jumping fish”,
“big rock”
“the fishing boat”
“the yellow mooring bouy”
and then the charts come out along with the log book to try and remember a
stop that at one time had been considered THE BEST.

There is so much space here too. Unlike the Caribbean we have ...