After our very lengthy walk yesterday we decide to take
things a bit more easy today and instead we do a shorter walk to the west of
the town. This walk involves more than
just seeing some beaches, we also get to take in some views of the town, a
local waterfall with bathing pool, and the ruins of an old aqueduct (which were
interesting) and the ruins of an old prison (which were not).It is worth mentioning here that in the past Ilha Grande had been both a leper colony and a prison, and yet now people pay to come here, where in the past people were sent here against their will. It is interesting how we view this as a paradise where in the past it was a hellhole. It has to be said that is most likely because of the insects, the one downside to a jungle island like this is that there are a lot of mosquitos and other things that bite.
Anyway after the short walk we find a shaded spot on the
more crowded beach and spend the day there.
The beach has black sand, so it isn’t as attractive as the previous day’s
beach, and it has deeper and rockier water, so swimming isn’t as good, but it is
still a pretty good beach.Because we had splashed out on dinner the previous night this evening we go to a local all you can eat (from one plate) restaurant, where we fill our plates for £3.30. There is an art to stacking and I am beginning to get it right so you can end up with so much on a plate. I actually thought it was a per kilo place, but once I realised that it was a per plate place I just lumped on the potatoes to make sure I got my value. Because this was so cheap we were able to take a dessert as well. Here (and in Paraty) this seems to come from guys with street stalls with loads of cakes on them which you can buy a slice of for less than £2. I had an amazing chocolate cake, although Dorota’s custard cake was not the passion fruit one she thought it was. Still it was better than the shrimp cake they had on offer (I will repeat this in case you think it is a typo, a cake with shrimp in it).
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