I love when TDYers come visit. These "temporary duty" officers often arrive with fresh perspectives and want to travel as much as possible since they are usually only posted for a few weeks or months to help with staffing coverage. So when my unwieldy children started to suffer from rainy season cabin fever, I called up a TDYer here from Sao Paolo, Brazil and set off on another dirt road to check out the smallest beach in Pernambuco: Praia do Paraiso. Indeed the tiny praia stretched a mere 70 meters wide filled with grainy sand and high sea-weed content, but of course the kids relished hunting for treasure in the pouring rain. We hung around just long enough for me to slip on the rocks and smash my phone to pieces- which went completely unnoticed by a fisherman, clad only in a winter hat and Speedo mending his net. I lay there, spread out like a starfish dazed but the impact and ocean drenching my hindside. So we hiked back to the car which I had parked at the top of the hill due to massive worm-hole openings in the road. At least it warranted spectacular views of Pernambuco's famous outlying reefs, and I enjoyed good company with a new friend; without her I would have been a total weeny.
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| View from the top. |
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| Where we decided to hike instead of drive. |
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Beached seaweed
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| Deets hunting for dinosaur bones |
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