Beaches and more beaches

Rio Grande do Norte has hundreds of miles of the most amazing beaches

Give a Northern Brazilian a restuarant and he will ruin every meal by gunging sauce over everything and over cooking it. Give him a tin for a charcoal fire and a beach and he will cook the most amazing fish and shrimps

Canoa Quebrada is a village thats suddenly packed at weekends. Clubs and bars open which don´t seem to even exist during the week. The party starts at midnoght and goes on all night

We stayed in a lovely place run by a very strange guy. He has built two beautiful houses but hasn´t got round to putting proper roofs on. As it was the rainy season we would be woken by warm rain water dripping on the bed but it would all dry out next morning


If you put a transparent seat onto a toilet in a dim room. Well it was bound to happen. The water is from the rain!!

There is a beach near Pipa, called Dolphin Bay, where dolphins come to feed at low tide. They wait for the big waves and body surf nearly to the shore, clearly playing. I went in to swim with them but they seemed to disappear - can´t think why

A marmoset that had been abandoned on the beach and is being reared trying by hand