Cruise to Rio de Janeiro for the Carnaval
Dugout Canoe in Ilhabela Sunday before Fat Tuesday at the Aquaduct Bridget Bardot in Buzios Towel Art on the Veendam x Copocabana Beach in upper left, taken from the top of Sugarloaf Mountain Ilhabela beach Patrica and I boarded the Holland-America ship Veendam February in Ft.Lauderdale for a 27 day cruise to Rio de Janeiro in time for the Carnaval, a massive week long party the same time as Mardi Gras. We made one day visits to 8 Caribbean islands before anchoring in Belem, Brazil, at the mouth of the Amazon River. We visited another 6 ports in Brazil before debarking in Rio de Janeiro. I think it was on the way to Trinidad from Aruba, we saw the fraction of a second 'green flash' at the very end of the sunset, the first time for either of us, I was thrilled to finally see it after many years looking at hundreds of Ocean sunsets. The sky was very clear all the ...
