The view was excellent out the hotel window. Beautiful beaches in all directions. Leaving all this excellent scenery, we rented three cars and prepared to move down the coast. We drove to the small town of Igapue where we enjoyed a meal on the beach.
Next was a series of beach walks to see the geology of the coastal areas. Curious bleached, white features in the iron-rich sediments were postulated to be derived from the decay of roots that had penetrated the sediments. Along the beach, we held a series of lectures on the implications of these coastal formations for Brazilian geology.
That evening, we drove inland through scrub to the city of Icapuí where we stayed at the hotel on the beach.
The next day, we hiked along the beaches again for more geology lessons. Of interest was the type of ocean-going fishing boat used by the locals.
