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  Highlights: Nice calm reef bay to camp Lowlights: Tired as hell… Launch: Steep beach with dumper Landing: Calm reef bay Pos: here Loc: before Itaparica Acc: tent Dist: 51,7 km Start: 6:50 End: 17:00 Felipe came early this morning to help me to carry all my gear and kayak to the beach from the […]

  Highlights: Nice sightseeing tour through the backcountry to Linhares Lowlights: Got to bed only at midnight Loc: Regencia Acc: Posada Online work until 2pm, then Eduardo and Felipe picked me up to drive me to a big supermarket in Linhares where they actually live. I really enjoyed the drive through dusty back country roads […]

  Highlights: Continued working in the office very concentrated Lowlights: I did not much else… Loc: Regencia Acc: Posada Not much to tell from today, I was at “my”office quite early, fortunately I did already repair and clean all my gear yesterday’s morning and this morning. Got not that much sleep though… All office work […]

  Highlights: All necessary help and office needs provided! Lowlights: Can’t say… Loc: Regencia Acc: Posada Eventually I managed to upload my pictures since Salvador and to update the last four days where I was only able to send a satellite message. Please go and have a read and look! Bert took me this morning […]

Highlights: Found my host! Lowlights: Horrible launch effort Launch: Heaviest surf belt Landing: Sheltered river breach Pos: here Loc: Regencia Acc: Posada Dist: 76,9 km Start: 6:00 End: 17:00 Getting out of this beach proved notto be as easy as I thought.I was even hesitating in the morning to go at all, as the wind would […]

Highlights: found a small ‘planted’ windshelter Lowlights: had to roll on landing Launch: tough but ok Landing: heaviest surf belt Pos: here Loc: open beach Acc: tent Dist: 48,8 km Start: 6:00 End: 15:00 The wind and according sea and surf was not really down this morning, but I decided to push on anyway.It would be a tough launch…helmet on, […]

Highlights: I managed a landing in style on a populated beach Lowlights: I tried in vain to recover laptop on 220V Launch: Low surf Landing: Heavy surf in bay Pos: here Loc: Conceicao Acc: tent Dist: 52,7 km Start: 6:00 End: 16:35 When I was mentioning two days ago conditions are easy and mellow, and I am almost bored, […]

Highlights: I saw this beautiful double rainbow Lowlights: Laptop is broken… Launch: Low surf Landing: Moderate surf Pos: here Loc: behind Mucuri Acc: tent Dist: 51,7 km Start: 4:45 End: 14:50 My laptop killed itself at night, I was quite angry with all those electronics not holding up on this long trip, despite utmost care and experience […]

  Highlights: Head wind is gone Lowlights: My back band belt ripped Launch: Moderate dumper Landing: Low surf Pos: here Loc: behind Barra Velha Acc: tent Dist: 50,8 km Start: 4:40 End: 15:30 It’s my partner Peter’s birthday today! One more event I am missing home…and I DO miss home a lot over the times. […]

  Highlights: hmmm, nothing really… Lowlights: headwind kicked in again strong Launch: Fat high tide dumper Landing:Low surf Pos: here Loc: beach behind Prado Acc: tent Dist: 31,2 km Start: 4:55 End: 12:20 Can’t believe it…at high tide, the water along the cliffs in my area reached fully to their bottom, but as soon as […]