Day 5: Boipeba

Today we slept in, got breakfast at our hotel and decided, again at Charles' recommendation, to walk to a nice beach along the island - Morere. It was about a 2 hour walk along the water and through trees - very nice scenery.

We arrived at our destination and found a guy with a taxi boat named something like "Za" or "Ze" and negotiated a rate for him to take us out to the same pool we had snorkeled yesterday.  He did and we snorkeled, seeing even more cool fish.

At some point we watched the floating caipirinha bar that was sitting there (with our stuff on it) move away but fortunately it was just relocating to another point in the water!  At this point most of the other tourist boats had left so we were pretty much the only ones.  We asked Za if he would take us to the caipirinha bar and he did.  We say all the floating tables were put up but Swaps asked if they could put out one for us.  They happily did - along with custom caipirinhas.

So there we were sitting in the middle of the beautiful ocean, drinking delicious beverages in the sun - not too shabby.  We took advantage some more and ordered clams that came with a cup of their juices and then Za told us he was going to fish and he would be back.

He returned 5 minutes later with freshly caught fish that they gutted, cleansed and fried up to eat RIGHT THERE.  After gorging ourselves on some of that we headed back to the beach to have a drink and met up with some other people from our pousada who were from Argentina.

Za convinced us to take another ride out to see the mangroves and the sunset.  The mangrove trees grew directly out of the water because they live only where fresh water and salt water meet - they take in both and expel the salt.

We then went back to the caipirinha bar to watch the sunset and then headed back home.  Such a nice day.

After showering we went into town for dinner at Panella de Barra for bahían food which was okay.  Swaps met a stray cat friend.

We headed back home for some Zzzzzs.