Tuesday 10, 2012
We started the day with a glorious day of sunshine with a random quick rain shower to lighten the load of the sun. After a wonderful traditional Brazilian breakfast combined with a little American eggs and bacon, we started out on our daily journey.
The day started by visiting Parque Sauípe - Prefeitura Municipal de Mata de São João an ecological reserve in the state of Bahia. The ecological reserve is an educational and resforestation reserve showcasing the regrowth of the Atlantic Forest. Approximately 10,000 students per year visit the reserve. I found it interesting to think that different areas have forests. This forest has palm trees, coconut trees, banana trees, heart of palm trees and bamboo. Just a slight change from our well known pine, evergreen and oak trees. As a part of the park we also visited the Natural Museum of the Environment that was funded by Cetrel. The natural museum had many displays of various wildlife in the area including beautiful birds. In the museum were several archeological artifacts as well.
After an educational morning we ate lunch at the Restaurante Sombra da Mangueria (Restaurant under the Mango Tree) for an open air lunch with some moqueca.
Next we traveled to Parque HIstorico Garcia Davila, an ancient castle built in the 1700s by Portugese immigrants Fundação Garcia D'Ávila - Praia do Forte - Bahia. Here we climbed and explored as possibly the first explorers themselves with a beautiful view of the ocean.
The most exciting event of the day was to visit the Projecto Tamar which protects sea turtles all along the coast of Brazil. www.praiadoforte.ws. We got to feed the turtles living there in captivity with real fish and learn about the different kinds of turtles. Over a million turtles have been saved through this project.
After the turtles we were treated to gelado (ice cream) or sorbet for those use allergic to dairy. Jill says she is now in heaven because even in Brazil they have yogurt shops!
We ended the evening by doing our first presentation to the Rotary Club of Lauro De Freitas. It was a fun evening of food and making new friends. As we leave Salvador we leave many new friends behind we have become quite attached to, but look forward to the adventure of continuing to meet new friends.
We continue to appreciate all the love and support we receive from you our friends and family at home and as our new friend Morales says, "that is no "taking of the foot" or better known as teasing.
Amy
We started the day with a glorious day of sunshine with a random quick rain shower to lighten the load of the sun. After a wonderful traditional Brazilian breakfast combined with a little American eggs and bacon, we started out on our daily journey.
The day started by visiting Parque Sauípe - Prefeitura Municipal de Mata de São João an ecological reserve in the state of Bahia. The ecological reserve is an educational and resforestation reserve showcasing the regrowth of the Atlantic Forest. Approximately 10,000 students per year visit the reserve. I found it interesting to think that different areas have forests. This forest has palm trees, coconut trees, banana trees, heart of palm trees and bamboo. Just a slight change from our well known pine, evergreen and oak trees. As a part of the park we also visited the Natural Museum of the Environment that was funded by Cetrel. The natural museum had many displays of various wildlife in the area including beautiful birds. In the museum were several archeological artifacts as well.
After an educational morning we ate lunch at the Restaurante Sombra da Mangueria (Restaurant under the Mango Tree) for an open air lunch with some moqueca.
Next we traveled to Parque HIstorico Garcia Davila, an ancient castle built in the 1700s by Portugese immigrants Fundação Garcia D'Ávila - Praia do Forte - Bahia. Here we climbed and explored as possibly the first explorers themselves with a beautiful view of the ocean.
The most exciting event of the day was to visit the Projecto Tamar which protects sea turtles all along the coast of Brazil. www.praiadoforte.ws. We got to feed the turtles living there in captivity with real fish and learn about the different kinds of turtles. Over a million turtles have been saved through this project.
After the turtles we were treated to gelado (ice cream) or sorbet for those use allergic to dairy. Jill says she is now in heaven because even in Brazil they have yogurt shops!
We ended the evening by doing our first presentation to the Rotary Club of Lauro De Freitas. It was a fun evening of food and making new friends. As we leave Salvador we leave many new friends behind we have become quite attached to, but look forward to the adventure of continuing to meet new friends.
We continue to appreciate all the love and support we receive from you our friends and family at home and as our new friend Morales says, "that is no "taking of the foot" or better known as teasing.
Amy
What an adventure!
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