Beaching in Florenopolis

Its been a fantastic few days of sun, sea and beer. After a 15 hour bus ride on the local Brazilian bus Pluma I made it to the Florenopolis city centre. Florenoplois is pa of the Island of Santa Catarina. Never gotmuch sleep on the bus and arrived here around 8 in the morning. From there had to catch 2 buses to the hostel which took another 2 hours. Now as you can imagine I wasnt a pretty sight especially with a 20 kg backpack on my bag of which I had to stand wth all the way to the hostel.

Hostel is very chilled out and is located in the far south of the island. We are about 200m from the beach and only have a small local bar with a local shop.

After arriving here i washed up ,had a quick breakfast and joined a group of fellow backpackers on a walk to a seclued beach. The group was made up of Vanessa ( Barcelona). Antonio ( Barcelona), Niaomi ( Holland) and Pierre from France. This walk ended taking us 3 kms along the local beach and then 2 hours through jungle. Not sure how i made the walk but it was cool to get to the other side and do some swimming. Antonio made a local Spanish dish that night consisting of rice, egg and ham. Not amazing but food is food when backpacking!!

The following day went to an oyster restaurant on the sea. View was amazing with our table basically in the sea. After that we went down to the sea and took some photos and chilled out.

Yesterday we had some new recruits ( Andy and Louise ) UK and i went beaching with them till late and then finished off witha few cervajas. Picked up some fresh calamari from the local fisherman and made a seafood pasta which was loved by all.

Today tried my hand at surfing without much luck as the board was way too small and light. Sure it would of been a breeze if I had the right equipment!!!!!

Thinking of heading out tomorrow to Ascension in Paraguay and then on to salta in Northern Argentina to meet up with Mike Daly. From there its Bolivia , Peru and Chile.

Have had an awesome time here but new cheaper countries are to be discovered. Will keep ya posted!!

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