Illha Boipeba

After two weeks in Salvador de Bahia, I was getting tired of hassles and parties and wanted to get away somewhere nice tranquil and peaceful place. There was a famous resort island called Morro de São Paulo close to Salvador, but I wanted to go somewhere less touristic. Then the English girls I was hanging around in Salvador told me about this Boipeba island which is close to Morro de São Paulo and more desearted. I also met this Denish guy in Salvador and we were talking about catching up later. He went to Morro de São Paulo from Salvador at first and he was thinking of going to Boipeba afterwards too. Our dates for the island fitted just well so we decided to go to the island just before the carnaval.

Actually both of us missed the bus/boat on the day we were planning to go to the island in the same town and he stayed there for one night and I went to Morro de São Paulo for one night to see what it is like instead. I met really really good person on the way to Morro, but I will talk about him later. I got to know that my Denish friend also missed the boat/bus by e-mail when I got to Morro, so the next morning I went back to the town with the first boat and we caught up at the bus station and headed down to the Boipeba island together.

After two or more hours of bus ride, we took the boat and it went on in the great mangrove forest for more than 1 hour and Ta-dah! we got there, the island which looked like a paradise and was just what I needed after the Salvador! On the bus and the boat, we met a few people and the both of them said the beach called Morere is very nice so we decided to go there. It was kind of the behind the island so we had to walk about 1 hour on the burning beach with the big baggage of him ( I left my big one in Salvador) . On the way there was a river joining to ocean where we had to cross. Depending on the tides it gets quite deep. We followed the loclal family crossing there where must be the shallowest part and we found it was kind of fun to cross the river with all our bags.


We met very nice Brazilian couple and another guy who I met in Salvador at the camping site in Morere and hanging around a lot with them. When we got there at first, the Brazilian guy said "here, you have a lot of nothing to do." We laughed. It was true and I loved it. The island was just so beautiful. As a result of "nothing", it gets a pitch dark at night, so we could see so many stars. I even felt a bit dizzy by watcing those too many stars, so I said that I am getting star sick. The others were all laughing and kept talking about my sickness. One of the guys was writing down about my sickness on his diary, so i am writing that here too. We also saw fireflies on the beach too. There wasn't any special tourists atractions, but we had really good creative, productive and relaxed time there. We spent our time by exploring other beaches, lazing on hammocks, making fire at night, playing music and singing and juggling! The Denish friend is a juggler and he had been working in a circus in Rio to teach juggling to Favela kids for volunteer project. It was very nice to juggle in the beautiful water and now I can juggle a little bit with three balls! Also I had a pet for a short time. One morning when i went for a walk on the beach, a dog saw me and followed back to the camp site. I named this spotty dog Posh-Posh. She was our company for a while.


The our stay on the island was five days. It was such a fun and relaxed time and was a perfect rest and recharging energy before the crazy carnaval. One day my friend said that he could't stop smiling since we had got to the island. I was the same. My time in Boipeba had been such a merry time with happy tunes in my mind all the way.