Wednesday 23 March 2011

THE LARGEST BEACH ON EARTH!

Torres , the beach of my childhood & adolescence, is a city where the litoral of Rio Grande do Sul begins. After that last rock seen behind , route south, there are no more elevations on the coast of RS, it's 622km of continuous beach,  just sand and sea, a fine thin sand that caress your feet. After that, Brazil ends and there is Uruguay. Cassino beach, the last beach at south, is the largest beach on Earth,  one single beach with "255km"of extension.
Torres aereal view: This entrance is Mampituba river, boundary with the state of  Santa Catarina , at north. From Torres, route north, you'll have to go 7.000km straight line, or 8.500km boarding the coast, till the end of Brazil at north. But it's not a continuous beach.

Praia da Cal - Torres abril 2009

Surfe na Praia da Cal - Torres - RS

Friday 4 March 2011

Some things last forever! They met fancy dressed (both) for carnival, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and here I am. So, have a good Carnival!

 Family album. 
On a country road in the farm:




Mrs.Liana Bertolucci Andrade (Argentina) and Mr.AntonioAndrade (Brasil) ready to attend a reception at the Brazilian Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, back in the sixties: MAMÁ y PAPÁ.
Mamá Liana.

The family and a llama in a trip to Los Andes. I'm pretending to ride the animal, almost on its neck, but in reality I had fear that the llama would jump and I would fall down and crash on the floor. Cordoba, Argentina.

Heaven's Ranch: Sister, brother & me on the farm.


Heaven's Ranch:
Fazenda do Céu/Heaven's farm. On a country road. Rio do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brasil


Florianópolis, Sta.Catarina.
                                   Methamorphosis, the transformation:


Mamá now. After a well succeeded 3 bypass surgery a year ago, at Saint Francisco hospital in P.Alegre,  she's really good and ready for at least one more decade. We're watching close .