09 April 2011 – We leave the anchorage of Gamboa around 7am, direction Salvador!!!! It rains ropes and until the middle of the day the grains follow one another. arrival in Itaparica around 5pm…. The stage in Itaparica is necessary….them 3 First days are devoted to filling up with water from the tanks and especially filling our…
We leave Camamu Bay with the engine without a brown of wind. Suddenly the engine coughs and stops! And Yes… It's the dry breakdown!!! Yet we should have about thirty liters left – Surely a safety so as not to suck up dirt that may be at the bottom of the tank – good…
A little further up towards the mouth of Camamu Bay… Anchorage at the northern tip of the island of Germana. Hot Day, No wind, A dozen men are busy at the tip of the island in their canoes. We go ashore to take a closer look…
You remember our expedition where, Lost in the meanders of the mangrove, we returned to the boat without having found the way to the Atlantic beaches and the long-awaited bath in the waves… Well we always want to take this sea bath…. (Read message “Sea bathing or city…
Last stage of our ascent of the Rio Maraù… The famous “Cachoeira de Tremembé”… Said “the most beautiful waterfall in the state of Bahia”! Monday 01 April – Before heading for the Tremembé waterfall, we prefer to fill up with water at the municipal pontoon of Marau….Ivo, The person in charge of the dock has everything ready… Small ,smithereens…
Maraù is a small village of 1200 inhabitants on the Rio of the same name. It's the big city around the corner! Wednesday 30 March – We are greeted by music that fills the entire valley and anchor a little away from the municipal pontoon. Once ashore we learn that today is the feast…
We want to explore the mangrove, its channels and this environment that is new to us… then we go on an adventure… Tuesday 29 March 2011 – We enter the part of the Rio Maraù that is not documented on nautical charts. Our nautical guide gives some summary indications, Contact information (sometimes erroneous) points…
Monday 28 March – We take advantage of the rising tide to continue the ascent of the Rio Maraù to the south. In fact there is only a narrow peninsula between the Rio and the ocean that is just to the east. 6 miles further… we go around the Ilha dos Tubaroes and decide to anchor just after, in the South…
Saturday 26 March – Arrived in the bay of Camamu we pass quickly in front of “Barra Grande” which is the tourist resort of the bay and we continue south up the Rio Maraù. The rest of the bay is not developed at all because the water is not very deep. Very few places…