Well the rain stayed away for most of the day and Sheryle and I went out for our first full day together on this tour on a boat to the Rio Islands with JC, Rahn and Paul. Jeff came along for the walk and returned after forgetting his phone.
There are litterally hundreds of wooden boats at the dock in Paraty from small two-person ones, to very large ones that take hundreds of people. We were sharing on a large one, that had a singer who was very loud, a full kitchen and toilets. We started on the upper deck, then came down to the lower one once they stopped for swimming, as they did in three locations.
The first was near a rocky island and the second two were near beaches. Other boats were present too, and I wondered how the residents on each island, of which there were one or two houses, managed to deal with the daily onslaught of visitors. Sheryle and I swam at all three sites and I took my GoPro ashore on the last one to make sure that it was waterproof - which it is to 5m.
We decided to have lunch later in the day which was fine, but managed to get to the food and a couple of beers just before the rain came pouring down and cleared the top deck very quickly. JC and Rahn slept on the deck most of the day and Paul sat with his earplugs in, to avoid the loud and constant music.
Overall, we really enjoyed the swimming.
When we returned, we did not have dinner which was a good thing. But I did
manage to set up my new iPhone 15 which will take all night to download 10GB of data!
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