River Paraguacu Family Adventure
Our family set off early in the Baia de Todos os Santos heading north to catch the tidal current going into the River Paragaucu. The river snakes inland through a mixture of tropical vegetation, ochre coloured rocks and mangrove shores. This is a different Brazil; no tourism, a few small fishing boats, including saveiros , the traditional Bahian wooden sailing boat. The saveiros were sailing, we were motoring. At midday we reached Sao Francisco do Iguape. The crew made light work of anchoring and pumping up our kayak to go ashore and visit the Convento de Santo Antonio, a beautiful old monastery, now in ruins originally constructed in the Baroque style with a Rococo frontispiece. About 350 years old. With two techie sons, it was natural that my drone which was packed away in cobwebs, would be taken out, and sent up to explore the convent grounds. Then we headed another 5 miles upriver which had depths of as little as 2m....