Fishing from dugout canoes

While kayaking, I noticed that the local fishermen have a far sleeker form of transport, which also doubles up to help them catch seafood from the bays. Their dugout canoes (made by themselves from large trees in the forest) are painted in all colours, including the black and red of Flamengo football club! I was lucky to see a couple of fishermen come in with their catches- prawns, bream and sole.



In for the day

Nets and canoe

Shelters for canoes, motor-boats and equipment

Buoys and baskets

Traps

Ramps made of wooden beams over rocks

The Flamengo Canoe

And 4kg of prawns caught by its 17 year-old owner

Almost home

Bringing in the canoe

The catch amongst dried banana leaves

Proud son

Son and grand-father help out

Into a yellow crate to feed the extended family

For more photos on a video clip (with the Moro na Roça song by Mônica Salmaso), check this:

Sea Kayaking



Out of the mangroves and down-river

The bay of Paraty, down the coast from Rio, with its calm waters, islands, bays and magnificent tropical scenery, is a natural paradise and ideal for sea kayaking. Here are a few pics from one of the days out on the water.

River meets beach and bay



Silhouette of the rain-forest



Into an elongated bay

Bromeliads on the rocks

Clear waters and encrusting corals

Resting on a small beach





Brazil's national flower (Yellow Ipê) floating out to sea



Entrance to a local family's house on the rocky coast

Going to get bamboo

Past a fishing boat at the end of the day