Brazil - One Big Brazilian Adventure

The Blast Crew - Downwinder to Taiba

We have been home almost a fortnight now from what is arguably our best trip so far!
Brazil is probably the ultimate kitesurf destination because of it's consistant warm winds...no need for wetsuits here!
This year we took a group of twelve like minded souls on a journey from the capital of Brazilian Kitesurfing....Cumbucu up the coast to Jericocoara via a stop off at Paracaru.

This enabled all to get their fix, be it waves, flat water or downwinders (often also with both)

The kiting at Cumbucu is a great first into to the kiting in general on offer in Brazil. There are two main lagoons offering flater water for the freestyle guys, they are also an awesome place to watch the pro's practicing the latest tricks.

The quieter of the two is Tabooba, a short bus trip upwind...it can still get busy so it's best to hit it early. You can downwind from here back to Cumbucu along the coast, be warned though it can get heavy pounding surf in front of the lagoon when the surf is up. It's then approx 7km back downwind in usually very little swell, or carry on for another 7-8km to Cauipi Lagoon. This downwinder can get much heavier swell....never that big - but it can be extremely heavy for it's size.

Twelve kiters produce a lot of kit......

After a few days getting into the Brazilian vibe we headed up the coast with just a one day stop at Paracaru...one of my favourite spots. Here you have a lagoon at low tide with waves on the reef out the back.

 Twelve kitesurfers brings a hell of a lot of gear.....37 Kites/18Boards to be precise!

Next stop was Jeri another few hours drive up the coast, the further north you travel the windier it generally gets, so we were all getting excited to use our smallest kites.

Jeri also has no roads, just sand, a lot of sand..which tested the hire cars to the maximum!

Off road-ing Jeri stylee

 We hired a local driver for each of the cars we had, this was an experience in itself!

Pete, with the hire cars waiting on the waters edge....they also followed us on downwinders in case we needed them.

 The drivers!

Whilst in Jeri we did a mix of downwinders and flat water spots depending on your preference. The surf he is also smaller so it was great place for the less experienced to try there first downwinder, a new skill that's not as easy as it first sounds!

Next stop was Paracaru again, this time for a few days.

This spot was a favourite amongst many, not hard to see why with a cafe and palm tree tree beach umbrellas at the waters edge! Winds here were more like 9-12m with a nice small wave on the reef.

Then it was back down to Cumbucu for the final few days. Whilst in Cumbucu we met up with some of our long time friends who live there, one of which, Neil has his own Buggy which we he took us on plenty of excursions looking for surf.

 

The view from the restaurant

On the last day we also organised some buggy's for the whole group for a big downwinder to Taiba where we stopped for lunch in a beautiful restaurant set in lush trees on the seas edge. Poss the best day of the whole trip for many.

One of the buggy's

Sadly it was time to say goodbye to Brazil for another year, we had quickly got used to 30 degrees air temp with the water temp not far off the same! Whilst we were away we had heard the UK had slipped into a spell of very cold weather and hear we were basking in the warm winds each day oblivious to it.

We would just like to say a huge big thanks to all that came on the trip....

Harry

DaveF

Victoria

DaveM

Pete

Sophie

Abi

Jeff

Ian
SarahS

Next years will I'm sure be even better with helpful feedback from the guys regarding locations etc. I'd also like to thank Sarah@Blast for doing so much of the hard work a trip like this needs....(for no profit to us)
She's a diamond!

Thanks guys!

Brazil - The Video

See below for full review of our trip to Brazil back in Septemeber, and remember we will be running a trip there in November 2013 so check our website for more details.

www.blastkiteboarding.co.uk

Brazil...Cumbucu - Jeri Road Trip.....meeting and sharing some great times with people along the way!

Big thanks to all those that made this a fanatstic Honeymoon!

Rog www.kitesurfexpeditions.com
David www.windyaddiction.com
Neil www.slinetransportsers.com
Mario www.cumbucuguesthouse.com

Brazil (the Honeymoon)

We have just returned from our Honeymoon to Brazil, we chose Brazil after checking all the things we required in a trip, mainly Hot, Sunny and windy! ;-)
Although it was a honeymoon, obviously we both share a passion for kiting, not laying by a pool so it was important that we ticked the correct boxes.

We had an amazing trip, partly due to the great people we met along the way. Trips to far flung kite destinations like this attract a certain type of traveller, easy going, adventurous, fun, happy smiley types from all over the world and Brazil was no different.

Each pousada (guest house) we stayed in we met more like minded kiters, all searching for the same adventure. We hired a simple car for the two weeks (thanks Rog at http://www.kitesurfexpeditions.com/ ) which aloud us to travel as we wished, so first stop was Ihla do Guarjuru where we met up with our freinds from the RAF on there annual "training" trip....great bunch of people who like to play hard!

After a few days in IdG we headed further north to Prea and Jericocoarar where we stumbled upon a local who would become our guide for the next few days, this guy (Pimbo) was amazing driving the car where beach buggy's would fail! Quite simply he drove our 1 litre hatch back not only along the beaches but also over impossibly steep sand dunes.

Sarah, ripping in the surf near Prea.





The surf in N.E Brazil is rarely big however it is usually a decent 3-6ft and cross shore winds so pretty much perfect for ripping in.

Marc getting his kiteloops low!

Getting the Darkslide dialled!

After a few days up north we headed back to Cumbucu to meet up with our good freinds Neil,James and Rog who we kited with each day doing some epic downwinders to Paracaru and Taiba etc We also spent way too much time drinking British tea at Neils appartment ;-)

Husband & Wife flying high!

Marc jumping over Sarah

So we are now back in the UK and summer seems long gone replaced with cold grey sky's, still at least we should get some decent winter winds and swells very soon, next week is the British Wavemasters in Devon and then at the end of the week i'm off to Hatteras, North Carolina USA to the Epic Dealers week to meet up with Dimitri & Helen plus all the other lucky Epic dealers from aound the world.