Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Praia do Forte

Praia do Forte is a small fishing village 2 hours north of Salvador. This fishing village has now become more of an artisan town and a Turtle Reserve. A group of us spent this past Friday and Saturday there. Here are some of the highlights of things we saw:

We arrived mid afternoon on Friday, and the sun began to set soon after we ate our late lunch/early dinner. Here is the town square, and the sunset on the coast with the silhouetted fishing boats.




Saturday morning we visited the turtle reserve which serves to save, rehabilitate, repopulate and educate about sea turtles (or tartarugas in Portuguese). They had all types and sizes of turtles including ones that were smaller than the palm of your hand (sooo cute):



2 comments:

potsy said...
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nazarooski said...

What a rough time you are having down there. You must want to come back so bad, I mean L.A. is beautiful compared to that place... right?