Glad you two have found your happy place ,Mum continues to improve ,some short walking now with help of a walking frame . Yes i miss youth a bit too ,haha .no shortage of the lovely ladies so it would seam.anyhoo carry on YDF Noel.

Heya Noel

Easy to be happy here man, totally different take of life to their neighbours.

Good news on ya mum too.

Met up with Sheldon, fello Ozzie traveller on a F800 GS with his girlfriend Ev, great people and gonna do some riding with them.

Cheers Andi

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Leaving Sao Paulo after good times we headed the wrong way over the truckers road to Santos .... was cool tho.

Heading up the BR 101 saw us going coastal, cruising and taking it easy, Maya now running like a bag of shit at lower RPM after the water from the bad batch of fuel made itself at home in the carbs.

We put an additive in but it does not seem to be very successful so far, will see the tank through with the cleaner and assess it from there, really trying to avoid lifting the carburetors out as they really are in the heart of the bike and it is a big job.

We stayed the first night at Caraguatatuba, the town smaller than its name and nice place to stay, the owner of the hostal a petrolhead having three motos including a 600 Tenere.

An easy start to the next day with a walk along the beach (a run for Ellen) then it was was back out on the 101 north along the coast, diving off the main drag saw us go through small seaside villages, very nice wee towns along a piece of paradise.

Ellen jogging down the beach



Small seaside town and river



Trinidade was recommended to us so we took the exist into town, it was quite busy so we decided to carry on out to Paraty Mirim and camp a couple of nights, which turned into four nights as the place was beautiful and we had beaches to ourselves ..... kinda cool.

Road out of Trinadade



In Paraty Mirim there is a beautiful waterfall, again we had the whole place to ourselves so a sit in the sun and listen to the water ... tranquilo :clap



The waterfall





At one beach there was a young Kiwi with a Chinese chickie .....having snuggly buggly cos there was no one else around.

This pic comes with a health warning ... there are splinters on the deck :eek1



Our intentions for the following day was to head into Paraty township, a historical place and the first settlement in this region for Brasil however we met another couple from Sao Paulo that were staying at the hostel, they invited us for a 1.5 hours walk which turned into 5 hours and walking through stunning areas of prime beachfront lodges, one place was “if you have to ask the price you cannot afford to stay here” place.

We nearly couldn't afford to take this photo rofl



Stunning place



Here is our temporary millionaires photo



Mum nature decided we had enough great weather and she turned on the rain that night and the whole of the following day so Paraty was cold and wet, seems to be the norm every time we hit a tourist town in Brasil.

Maya, lonely under a tree and sitting in the rain



The flooded streets of Paraty





The hostel we stayed at in Paraty Mirim, very nice place, pictured here with other guest and thw owner Pedro on the right.
If you want to find them, go to www.paratyparadiso.com.br



There are these small monkeys here and they are cheekie little buggas but pretty cool, they are the size of a small cat



The last 263km stretch to the famous Rio De Janeiro to meet up with Sheldon and Ev, Sheldon is from Ozzie and Ev is an angel sent from Poland, they are travelling on a KTM coloured F800 GS.

Rio De Janeiro .....next up.

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seeing the bum shot i thought ,mmm been hanging out with sheldon and ev too long ,i see their stuff on FB a fair bit of the time ,Sheldon is a real Aussie LAD ,makes me laugh with some of his posts ,Ev must be a great sport to put up with him.We have had a spot of much needed rain here too ,took the day off yesterday to drive the 9 hours down to Kingaroy to see my Rhonda .Any hoo as always enjoyed your post YDF Noel

Heya Noel

Yeah sorry for spoilin ya day mate

Sheldon who ... yeah good buggas and great to hang with them, nice to talk to someone who actually understands you too.

Good news on the rain man, always nice to get things growing again.

Cheers Andi

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The road up from Paraty very scenic along the coast, the tail end of the cold spell still playing with us and the road damp in places but as the day grew older the temperature climbed again.

Coastal was the order of the day sneaking into Copacabana the back way which was easy given our hostel was just off the main drag in.



We had organised to meet up with Sheldon and Ev and they had already booked in to the hostel.

On our arrival our booking had been mucked up, the manager who was not there had dropped the ball completely and was quite offensive, we then got the owner Fabio involved who stepped in and sorted it out working everything out to keep everyone happy.:clap

It's not easy to find a reasonable priced hostel in Rio with parking, we were very happy with the location and service.
http://www.lagoagusethouse.com.


We spent the next day going for a tour with Sheldon and Ev who were local enough to know there way round ...outstanding!!!!



At the top of the hill in the plants Ellen spotted a green butterfly, hadn't seen these before



Me Kiwi, Ellen Chiwi, Ev Polish & Sheldon Ozzie ....slightly international in Rio



Dodgy bemma riders :rofl



Some interested people at the famous stair in Rio



We decided to hit it the next day and head north along the coast line, getting out of Rio was interesting with traffic jams and serious heat, poor ol Maya still runnin rough from the crappy fuel so I will have to clean the carbs.

Ev and Sheldon



We only made it 33 km (big day) ....nearly as far as Itacoatiara when a Suzuki car pulled up beside Sheldon and said where you going?, Sheldon says talk to the guys up front cos they are leading, so the Suzuki pulls up and the dude says where ya going, I replied and said dunno but north and we are turning right here.

A quick conversation before the lights changed he said, there is a nice beach etc follow me so we did, we pulled over further down and he said there is a nice beach etc and if you want you can come and stay at my house .... done deal!!!

So the beach appeared with scenery walking everywhere .... Sheldon and I stoked at the scenery, Eve and Ellen stoked to be a in a nice place but there was chickie eye candy too so everyone was happy.

Paulo (our new found host) took us to back to his house, under the cover was a new 12 Tenere, he is a rider too. Later we found out he had met our friends the World Wide Ride Sara and Dan in Argentina.

Ditching the bikie gear we turned into humans and took a walk back to the beach and their local clubhouse which saw us rehydrate and have to go for a swim ... hard times.





A walk along the beach netted some great views and the sun warming our backs and to finish a walk to the supermarket to get sushi supplies.

There is nice sand here too



Ev gettin frisky .... (sorry chick you need different parts for that:evil)



The sand was a different colour at this end of the beach



I like yello :eek1



Some real talent here, if I get into this position call me an ambulance :eek1:eek1



Ellens section, apparently this is good swimming sea



More on Itacoatiara ...... no more beachkini shots though :lol3

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Needs to be done

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