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Highlights: Quiet and cooler hours beautiful private hours until 10 am and after 7.30 pm
Lowlights: Horrible noise and heat in between…
Loc: Barra do Furado
Acc: tent

Despite my estimation of not being able to spend another noisy and hot day on the beach on a weekend day, I decided after writing yesterday’s update and after studying several forecasts I better have to be a hero suffering the noise than maybe unsafe sea conditions. The wind is a bit down on Monday, and much better the wave direction eventually turns in the same direction of the wind.My assumption are much better wave conditions crashing on the beach, as they can’t be worse as what I have seen…we’ll see if I am right. Maybe I can land before Macaré, maybe not.

Until 10 am, it was a peaceful morning, until the car convoys came, unpacking camp chairs, umbrellas, barbecues just around my tent and turning the music on full power – out of minimum three different cars. The highlight was a car parking eventually really only 10 cm besides my tent and kayak, leaving the doors open and this basically very nice Brazilian music from an elderly couple so full on that the loudspeakers were vibrating so much and stopped working (thank goodness) a couple of times in between. I am maybe not young enough any more to enjoy this kind of past time…please let me be back on my peaceful sea again!

One thing I learned eventually for this area – even arriving late afternoon on a seemingly deserted beautiful private beach never camp on the best looking spot like a river mouth tip or a dominating nice beach if you plan to spend a day or even two off. Rather either already land on a less attractive spot (without taking more risk) or just drag your boat and gear away from the best landing and camping spot *upwind* to a less attractive place. *Upwind* to hear less or even none noisy music, just in case, and to not feel like a freshly grilled steak from the smoke of the many barbecues. I had to move temporary out of my tent to escape the hammering noise, sitting somewhere upwind on a towel reading, with a blanket over my head against the sun and heat. There would have been so many better spots in this river after the experience I already had on Saturday, but moving was such an effort either. Best is all the trash the people leave…nature could be so nice.

A bunch of fishing boats had the Sunday off work and had loaded the family instead, nice! They were anchoring off the beaches a inside the river and also amused themselves. Tomorrow, they will ride with me probably again over the surf bar into the open sea. I have 14 hrs of day light to reach Macaré or less, this should be working.