Rock Hopping!....or rock sliding....ouch!! Today we went rock hopping. We tried to follow the rocks around the headland onto the main beach. Brilliant fun, felt like a child in Eastbourne all over again... We made it as far as the lagoon but couldn't continue as no more rocks!.. Percy Penguin was swimming about really near us and there were puffa fish darting in and out of the rocks. Crystal clear, beautiful. On the way back we decided to try and climb ove...

Beautiful Barra!! Living out of a back pack is harder than you think. Its heavy, you have to pack, re pack and unpack. Sleep in hostels, travel on stinky, bumpy buses with little sleep, day in day out and walk for miles and miles everyday. ( I can tell you are feeling sorry for us!) So as you can imagine we needed a rest and somewhere to chill out for a few weeks. We had been told by a friend about a little island on the South East coast of Brazil cal...

Snakes Alive!!! and ho hum.......ming birds! We stayed in Iguazu for quite a few days. Our hostel was lovely and again had a pool. We spent long days there chilling out, drinking beer watching the geccos and humming birds....idyllic. The only down side was being electrocuted . In our room someone had left one of the pins of a plug which had snapped off and was poking out of the socket. The socket was just below the light switch. In the darkness one nig...