Here I am! today Anna finally convinced me to contribute a bit to our blog.
Today was a lucky day for a group of fishermen who managed to get 2 huge camurupim fishes! A little crowd of curious spectators gathered around quickly as the fishermen dragged the precious load to the beach and started to clean it. Camurupim fish has huge scales which are used by locals for different type of handicraft objects, such as earrings, necklaces and beautiful lamps.
Luckily, we had a plastic bag with us, so we rushed to collect some scales to do handicraft curtains in our hotel. It took us some time later today to wash them all, and we still have to dry them up. Now the whole table at our washing area is covered with scary scales. I wonder what our cleaning lady will say tomorrow!?
Further on at the beach, we took pictures of the donkeys – the local street animals. In the beginning, when I saw them wondering all around the streets of Jeri, I assumed that they all belonged to somebody, and just got lose, or lost. Now I figured they are just living here by themselves, like street dogs or cats.
Next thing we saw was a helicopter landing on a beach for a few minutes. It was the first helicopter we saw in 3 weeks. One of our neighbors told us that one of the hospitals in Fortaleza sends a helicopter (for free?!) to Jeri, whenever there is serious emergency. Otherwise, there is no proper medical support in the nearest 40 kilometers or so.
I always get bored by sitting on the same spot, so I headed to the wind-surfer corner of the beach to take some more pictures. Check out one of the crazy surfers: this guy is 67 y.o. and still enjoying the wind every day! That’s what I call “a cool way to retire” ;-)
All this time I was getting busy with bureaucratic issues, pushing the local service providers, running around and collecting tips from our friendly (thanks God!) neighbors on how do this, where to get that, etc…
Today was a good day to take a break and distress, and we both spent a working day at the beach. Besides, we still have to get properly tanned (meaning deep-brown tanned), in order to look more like locals.
We still haven’t got our beach chairs, so the only option was to lie on the sand. The wind is quite strong until December, and we had to find a (more or less) quiet spot behind one of the fishing boats, however, even this way got covered with sand top-to-bottom.
Today was a lucky day for a group of fishermen who managed to get 2 huge camurupim fishes! A little crowd of curious spectators gathered around quickly as the fishermen dragged the precious load to the beach and started to clean it. Camurupim fish has huge scales which are used by locals for different type of handicraft objects, such as earrings, necklaces and beautiful lamps.
Luckily, we had a plastic bag with us, so we rushed to collect some scales to do handicraft curtains in our hotel. It took us some time later today to wash them all, and we still have to dry them up. Now the whole table at our washing area is covered with scary scales. I wonder what our cleaning lady will say tomorrow!?
Further on at the beach, we took pictures of the donkeys – the local street animals. In the beginning, when I saw them wondering all around the streets of Jeri, I assumed that they all belonged to somebody, and just got lose, or lost. Now I figured they are just living here by themselves, like street dogs or cats.
Next thing we saw was a helicopter landing on a beach for a few minutes. It was the first helicopter we saw in 3 weeks. One of our neighbors told us that one of the hospitals in Fortaleza sends a helicopter (for free?!) to Jeri, whenever there is serious emergency. Otherwise, there is no proper medical support in the nearest 40 kilometers or so.
I always get bored by sitting on the same spot, so I headed to the wind-surfer corner of the beach to take some more pictures. Check out one of the crazy surfers: this guy is 67 y.o. and still enjoying the wind every day! That’s what I call “a cool way to retire” ;-) It was already around 4 p.m. when the moon showed up in the sky, and it was time for us to scan some documents in the internet-café, do some groceries and go to the gym.
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