Surfin’ Safari

Thursday 1 April
Florianopolis

Another day in Florianopolis, another beach. Tan is starting to work well now.

But the interesting part is that we went sandboarding. I’ve never been snowboarding before and although I’ve done surfing once, that was a long time ago. Nevertheless sandboarding isn’t that hard and after a couple of runs on a gentle slope we tried a couple of bigger ones.

Once you had the gist it was easy. But there was a catch. Once you’d completed your run you then had to climb all the way back up the dune. Which given the soft sand, the height you have to climb, and the board that you’re carrying, it can take a long time. The dunes were pretty big. For some reason, they were in the centre of the island. I’m not sure how they actually got there.

The scenery meant there were plenty of good photos to be taken and it was good fun. An additional factor what the wind blowing sand at everything and for some reason it stuck to Ryan’s hair in particular, making it look like he had gone grey.

That evening we went to a hip hop club in Florianopolis town proper. It was full of hot, young girls who weren’t interested. They were also showing the Malaysian Grand Prix practice session as Friday morning in Malaysia was Thursday evening in Brazil. An interesting event of the night was when some random Brazilian guy tried shamelessly hitting on every single girl in the group and generally annoyed everyone in the process. These guys really do have no shame.

In the end it was hot dogs (again) and then home.