Full Moon @ Prinha

    Walking down the streets of Itacare I get called in from the group of Brazilian friends that I made from Victoria for some desert at a local bakery. They invite me to the beach the following day and tell me to bring a flashlight. We hang at one of the main beaches until late afternoon and then head out for the jungle walk to Prinha. People coming back from Prinha give us strange looks because not many people go to Prinha this late in the day. We show up for an epic sunset bodysurf session with absolutely nobody else around. The water and air temperature is warm, so we stay in the ocean past sundown.
    We go sit on the beach and laugh and stretch and wait for the full moon to rise. It comes up out of nowhere and is big, full and orange. The moon dances between the clouds as it rises, I watch in amazement while a couple of friends shoot some photos. I sit and watch the moon and think of my mom, who celebrates the full moon and wonder if it's a full moon in Santa Cruz as well.
    It turns out that I have one of the 3 flashlights amongst the group of 6, which I offer to one of the girls who voices her concerns about walking through the jungle at night. Without my light I end up stubbing my toe a couple times, but am so thankful to have been invited on this adventure I only curse under my breath. I remember that I have my ipod and traveling speakers in my pack, so I put on some tunes which lightens the mode for the hour long walk back to town. I'm invited over for dinner which consisted of pasta with tuna and cream sauce. If I wasn't so hungry from the walk I probably wouldn't have enjoyed it, but it turned out to be a pretty good meal. They invite me to head back to Morro De Sao Paulo with them in the morning, and having nothing better to do, I agree.