Historical/Background Info:
Not much to say about this quaint fishing village with a very nice beaches featuring emerald green waters. Brazilians, Argentines, and Europeans come here during the summer months for swimming and diving. It is at the base of lush mountains. There are shops on the wharf and you can walk and tour village in about 5 minutes. Basically, this is an inexpensive place to park the ship for a day. I would have rather spent two days at our next port, Santos, which is the port for excursions into the capital of Brazil, Sao Paulo.
What We Did Last Night:
As I mentioned yesterday, we had been invited to dine with Donald, the Food & Beverage Director. We showed up at 7:00 pm right on time and Donald arrived shortly thereafter. There was another couple invited so we sat there waiting for them to arrive before being served wine and ordering. Well, at 7:30 Donald told the Restaurant Manager to go call them. They could not be found. I told Donald we wanted to go to the show later so at 7:40 we started dinner. HOW RUDE OF THEM. It was a sea day so they had plenty of time to get ready. People like this piss me off. It was better for us anyway as now we had a nice private conversation with Donald. He is from Honduras and a very nice man.
We finished dinner in plenty of time for us to get our usual front row seats in theater for the "Dancing in the Streets" production. Those kids are soooooo talented. We loved the show even if it was the third time we have seen it this cruise.
What We Did Today:
There were only three excursions to select from here. In 2012 we took the long bus ride to and from Blumenau, which is a German community further inland. I was not too impressed with it and even less impressed as a bird shit on my head as I waited outside a restaurant after a nice lunch. Funny the things we remember! Instead of taking that 7 hour excursion again, I had planned to take the half hour bus ride up the coast to Camboriu on a 4 hour excursion. Rebecca planned to just stay on ship with air conditioning. Camboriu is a major beach resort destination for the South Americans with a population of nearly 80,000. This is a tender port as there is no docks and it is a long ride to shore. The Captain made a PA saying it was a pretty rough ride to shore due to the high winds. Then there was big delay getting people ashore so I just cancelled and am staying on the ship also today. By the way, the third excursion was mostly a long bus ride to the cosmopolitan city of Florianopolis. It was once a mecca for surfers but now it attracts international jetsetters and beach lovers. We are neither so did not do this tour.
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Camboriu with my telephoto lens.
View from our balcony
Several sea-doos, motor yachts, sailboats, and other water craft messing around out our balcony.
We worked out this morning. Still several folks in fitness center despite the tours today. I thought about taking the tender ashore after lunch but was watching the tender bounce around while returning to the ship will eating my burger. It is so HOT out there now. Temp is 90F but the humidity is real high. Miserable out there so I decided I did not need to go see a sleepy fishing village.
At 4:30 pm there is a special "sail-away" party for Seven Seas Society members out on forward deck that passengers are generally not allowed. Rebecca is not going and I will go just long enough to check it out and take some photos. We invited Susanne Peters to join us for cocktails and dinner tonight in Compass Rose.
I am attaching the link to my 2012 photos of the tour we did back then. It was an interesting tour to the German community of Blumenau. I think you will really enjoy them.
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https://goo.gl/photos/vFXpwSitshV4oKzP7
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