2012 NE Brazil

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Group shot of the crew at Niteroi overlooking Rio de Janeiro – Lawrence, Sally and the skipper

The Sugarloaf mountain and in the distance on the right the Corcovado topped by the Cristo Redentor. If you’ve got VERY good eyesight, in the foreground you can see Mina2 at the end of the nearest pontoon

Part of our 5-trolley supermarket shop that took four hours

Quartermaster Sally with the unenviable task of stowing six weeks worth of provisions – this is only as small part of it

Pet Officer Snoopy and Jolly Wodger making friends in the dog bowl carved from the timbers of the historic Falklands wreck of the “Vicar of Bray”

We head out of Rio harbour for the 3,000 mile cruise round the northeast of Brazil

Downwind rig – goosewinging our way north

Lawrence reels in the first of many good meals

The island of Morro de Sao Paulo has no cars. This is one of the several means of transport …

For all the talk of the classless multi-cultural society of Brazil, it was interesting to note that all the people lying on the beach were white and all the people working on the beach were black

At the top of a steep hill is a zip-wire down to the beach

… and this is the beach where it ends

We have a great sail north for our unscheduled 7-day stop in Salvador for repairs

Pelourinho – the Old Town of Salvador and a UN World Heritage Site

A truly memorable fish and shrimp moqueca stew

Bahian ladies in their traditional dress

At last we’re away again and, en route to Fernando do Noronha we get a night time hitchhiker

Approaching Fernando do Noronha – the Galapagos of Brasil, 200 miles into the Atlantic off the northeast tip of Brazil and one of the world’s great landfalls

Lawrence celebrating our arrival and his 70th birthday. He really must see a doctor about that termite hill growing out of his head

Old British canon just lying around on a hillside by the ruins of a fort

Nothing old about this. An amazing glass-bottomed craft for the punters to see the reefs in comfort

Brazil has arguably many of the best beaches in the world. The Beach Bible gives only five of them 5-stars and three of those are on Fernando do Noronha. This is one of them