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Highlights: Eventually time to do proper online work
Lowlights: rain all day, kayak not repaired yet

Loc: Subauma
Acc: Emiliano’s house in Lauro de Freitas

Ahhh, there is nothing but a nice clean cool private place from time to time…thanks to Emiliano to host me in the family holiday house! It is actually quite a palace…

My regular online chores like uploading pictures (done) and GPS tracks (not done yet due to IT problems) were waiting, plus downloading satellite maps and marking new way points for good safe landings and camping. Generally, it really looks like things are getting easier now, at least for a while. I already thought that was the case since Recife? Well, temporarily…
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Due to the strong rain all day Gustavo, who volunteered to repair my kayak, couldn’t come with his motorbike from Salvador, but he promised to come tomorrow. Many thanks to help me with that!

And surely I couldn’t help but jumping on my voting campaign for the “World Paddle Awards”…I learned a lot how to use facebook as so far I had only copied automatically my blog entries both to my friend’s page and fan page. I can only maintain *one* information site properly… Pictures you can still mostly find only on my website blog, where the place is I like to have my traffic and where I am actually reading your comments. I find it simply much easier to overlook all different subjects I have been writing to.

THANKS FOR VOTING FOR ME TO WIN THE WORLD PADDLE AWARDS!
I am in the lead now regarding the public votes, only because *YOU* were voting also for me!! I am hoping you didn’t feel bothered by my postings regarding this matter, or by some new “friendship requests” I may have sent. We’ll see how the jury is eventually deciding…! Thanks for your help! But the public voting is not closed yet…finish late January.