Day 50 and 51

Can’t believe I’m writing day 50! The end of the trip is near approaching! It’s going so quickly 🫣🫣

Today we did our last boat trip, the weather wasn’t as nice but we did a couple snorkelling spots and we saw cuttle fish and trigger fish which was pretty cool! We did see a turtle very briefly but sadly didn’t get to swim with one.

The most interesting and scary spot was the cave. The boat pulls up to this island and you have to use a ladder to climb up onto the island and then use a rope to get to the stairs. They then show you the way in, a ladder that just leads into the dark depths of a cave. We were slightly intimidated but continued on! You then have to scramble through this very tight cave to reach the fluorescent waters. It was really beautiful, we didn’t take our phones with us but I will pull a photo off Google to show you. After being mesmerised by it for a few minutes we then both decided we had had enough of the cave and quickly scrambled out again!

After the boat trip we ended our last night in Ilha Grande by going for drinks with one of the girls we had met at our hostel a few nights before!

Day 51
Today we are leaving Ilha grande to travel to Paraty - our final stop!! We took the ferry at 10am back to the mainland, after some complex queuing and ticket system! We then managed to use Google translate to get pointed in the right direction of the bus stop. After about a 10 minute walk we found it and waited for the public bus to Paraty to arrive. Luckily we managed to shove our bags in a spare space and then shuffled into some seats to try get comfy. Sadly this was not achieved as the bus was very windy and Keira had to try hold our bags with her feet to stop them falling out the bus. Eventually, a bit hot a bothered we arrived in Paraty and headed to our hotel. Our next challenge was the fact we thought we had paid and they didn’t. We got there eventually but took quite a while! We then just had a relaxed dinner and an early night!Read more