It wasn't all diving in Fernando de Noronha. This island is also known by it's amazing beaches and natural beauty.
It also had some amazing birds. The camera work leaves a bit to be desired but the way they were fishing was amazing specially when there were some big waves.
Each day we would go diving in the morning and visiting a new beach in the afternoon... and believe me... there were plenty of different beaches to try every day.
Some weird fauna too
Accessing some of the beaches was interesting to say the least...
It was good I was wearing high visibility clothing... once you go down the rabbit hole you never know what's going to happen... although in this case we ended up coming up in some amazing place.
All in all with the jungle, boat trip down the Amazon river and the diving it was a good way to relax ... just find a good beach and spend the afternoon there...
Unfortunately, all good things come to an end so at some point we had to take a flight back to Brazil...
At some point during the trip, Susana had bought a porcelain doll (probably in Olinda) and with all the comings and goings we could all hear something broken in the fully packaged and wrapped up doll. We couldn't tell what was broken for sure but we could tell that something was definitely broken...
Normal people would have waited until they got home and then they would have un-wrapped the doll and hope for the best... in this case... instead of doing that, María and Susana talked me into convincing airport security to let us use their X-Ray machine to see how broken the doll was... With the excuse that they didn't know how to explain everything to them in Portuguese they wanted me to do it for them. I can only say in my defence that I was a nicer person back then. :-)
I honestly thought they were going to laugh in my face but it was a small airport, we were the only passengers around and they seemed to be bored so against all odds they happily agreed (and without much effort on my part!) to help us out and next thing you know every airport security officer in view joined in trying to diagnose the doll's malady.
After some serious debate and a double back on the X-Ray machine it was concluded that one of the arms was broken but the rest seemed to be still intact.
Prognosis: Superglue the arm and good as new.
When we finally boarded the plain, I'm not sure what they put through the air-con but it looked like we were on fire...
Luckily... we made it back to Brazil mainland in one piece with no more adventures... which was a good thing as we had enough adventures for a lifetime in this trip! :-)
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