Japaratinga

The weather has not cooperated so much for us these past few weeks, so Thursday, when we had a morning of sun, we drove out to Japaratinga, a small town around 15 minutes from here. When the tide is out, you can walk out to the reef. There are areas in Recife (which mean Reef, incidentally) and Maceio where the reef is literally metres from shore. We didn't actually get quite as far as the reef...kids always need to stop and check everything out...and we needed to get back in time for Edjackson to go to school and for me to feed Lyla (we left her sleeping with Bel). But we had a fabulous time, and explored to our hearts' content.

Shaun caught a crab using dad's shoe...quite a feat for Shaun as he is almost scared to walk in the water for fear of being attacked by a crab. It was great to have Edjackson with us as he took the crab from behind and grabbed it by the claws. He then took the leg behind the claw and stretched it across and pushed it into the joint between the claw and the arm on the other side, so the crab couldn't open its claws, and did the same with the arm on the other side.