That's some good surfing!

It was hot, muggy and becoming unbearably mosquitoy. For at least
three days they promised us rain and thunderstorms. It just stayed
hot. Then in less than three hours the rain blew in and the
temperature dropped 10 degrees on the tail of 45km winds. Today
brought us some great surfing conditions if you wanted too brave the
cold (cold being a relative term). I saw no less than five umbrellas
flip inside out in the last 30 minutes on the road and countless
others mangled and abandoned on the sidewalks and in the gutters. In
the USA you get Indian summer. In Bahia you get Indian winter.

Proteste já

In the news there has been an awful lot in the news lately about
corruption in politics of Brasil. Corruption is nothing new here and
is so widespread and common that people have seemingly fallen into a
kind of complacency about it - like it's going to happen anyway, can't
stop it, so why bother waisting my time being bothered by it? One
politician in particular even made a comment recently that they needed
to sweep out the corrupt that resulted in hundreds of brooms being
placed upended in the ground on front of the famous domino
congressional buildings in Brasilia (many of these unguarded brooms
were soon stolen by those needing brooms - which did not surprise me
at all) in response. On Children's Day, also a Catholic holiday of
some kind so many people were conveniently off work, a parade/protest
of sorts was held here in Bahia. To my memory, this is the first
protest of this kind I have seen and in a city that can completely
fill the streets for Carnaval, it looked relatively small. Probably
many just went to the beach instead - I mean, what is the point of
walking around with signs when there is beer to drink and queijinho to
eat? No stress, Bahia!