Cap.197 | RODEADOS | Lagoa dos Patos • Río Grande do Sul BRASIL • Viaje en bicicleta.
Viviendo el Camino
[{'start': '55.000', 'end': '57.000', 'text': 'Do you feel the aroma? A sawmill. A woody aroma. Delicious, among all these trees. Look at the shadow it gives. It would be too much to ask that all routes be like this, right? What a beautiful shadow. Let the trees live. Kilometers before reaching Mostardas we began to see many pine forests and here we were able to enter one, where you can clearly see what the objective of these plantations is, which is the extraction of resin. Let\'s see, this one is also full. This is the community of Tapera, district of Tavares, a town we wanted to reach today but when passing through this town, very quiet, and seeing this church with a very nice, very neat patio, we said "well, we can ask here to spend the night." It is also true that we were almost 10 km away from Tavares and our body could no longer take it. We asked the person in charge here, and she quickly told us yes. It is not the first time he has received travelers, he told us. He also gave us the opportunity to show us the inside of the church, he opened the bathrooms for us, he provided us with everything he could. He said "unfortunately I don\'t have showers." But still he asked the brother who lives very close to here with his wife, who also very kindly told us "Yes guys, you can come and take a bath." It was something incredible, after several days, to bathe with hot water. We are very relaxed, ready to sleep. We already ate and knowing that tomorrow we also have a long day. According to the wind prediction, it will hit us head-on as we have been saying, and it will be a distance of more than 110 km to the place we want to reach tomorrow. The important thing is that we have a place, we are bathed, very comfortable, in case it rains we have a gallery. The bathroom where we take advantage of storing many of the things, so as not to spill them and ready to rest. I am going to unplug here because the light is no longer used. Yesterday the morning lady plugged it in. Another very quiet day on BR-101 in this part of the coast. Yesterday was, perhaps, because it was New Year\'s but today, already January 2, it seems to be the trend here. A very quiet route, in fact you don\'t suffer from the lack of shoulders, at all. Today\'s destination is about 10 km beyond Estreito, it would be approximately 100. And São José do Norte is where this route ends. In fact, a little further east is where this emblematic Brazilian route, the BR-101, ends. And it is there in São José do Norte, where we have to take the raft that crosses the channel of the Rio Grande and leaves us in the city of Río Grande, and there we take another route that will leave us in Chuí. The wind is changing little by little. It is changing from what we had seen in the forecast. Now it\'s a light, cool breeze, nice, but after noon, it seems it\'s going to start blowing straight. I really hope I\'m wrong because all we have is south and it\'s a very strong wind. Let\'s cross our fingers and hope we get to Estreito early. Since yesterday, at the height of Bacupari, we began to travel parallel to the "Lagoa dos Patos", the largest lagoon in South America, this if we consider that Lake Maracaibo is a lake and not a lagoon as many people maintain. And the interesting thing is that although we have been coming in parallel for more than 100 km and we have many more ahead of us, at no time can we see it because the route is in some parts 8 km, 5, some accesses are a little complicated and here we are in the part where the distance is narrowest but in the end the entrance ended up being private. Here we are just 1 km away. And what is also interesting is that to our left we have the sea but we cannot see it either because they go in parallel, the lagoon, the road and the sea. Lagoa dos Patos measures almost 300 kilometers long and up to 60 wide and occupies an area of \u200b\u200b10,000 km². Although it is a freshwater lagoon, as it is connected to the sea, and depending on the water level, it has saline areas, mostly at its mouth. In fact, the region is prone to flooding, especially in times of heavy rain or when cold fronts coincide with southerly winds, which push ocean water into the lagoon, raising its level and causing overflows. Although numerous varieties of ducks can be found within its limits, its name does not come from them, but from an ancient indigenous tribe that inhabited the region known as "Patos". Imagine if that bag were to be punctured. Bye. Bye all, you can\'t get any more of the mess out of the bike. You are going to go with the glove made into a ball of resin, literally. That\'s pretty bad already. The bag was stuck. Yes. I take it out there. Do you have the garbage bag there? I already take it there. I\'m going to turn it around. Come on. As there was no supermarket open, nothing open in the town, very January 2nd it seems, the only thing was this "lanchonete" so we were forced to eat "coxinha" because we had nothing else. I feel very obligated. It\'s very good. They put a lot of filling in it. It\'s worth it. Let\'s see if we can find a supermarket. I thought, January 2nd is Thursday, I thought there was going to be something open. But we have to get water because what we have is undrinkable. We need cold water, because we still have a way to go. Very good. We arrive at Estreito but not at the place where we have to stop. We are about 10 km in that direction. Address where everything is thundering. Everything around, thunder, from here everything, 180°. It is not known, but it is not raining yet. So we don\'t know. A few drops are falling on me. Yes, but it\'s not a... Yes, but it would be very risky, it seems to me, to go there but let\'s see what happens. No, no, it doesn\'t suit you. No, God, get away from there. The good thing is that we arrived before the rain does. It\'s a mystery if it will rain again or not but it continued to thunder as we arrived. We have a roof. Absolute happiness. And let\'s see here, there is the flower, the little flower for the hummingbirds . Oh how beautiful. This one is with yerba mate from Argentina. It\'s the mate. It\'s mate but it\'s another herb. Is it like the one in Paraguay? No, this one is hot. This is matte matte. Did you think it was going to be cold? No, in Paraguay it is cold. Tereré. But we also drink tereré, but not with herbs but with juice. Cold juice. Mate with yerba, mate with Argentine yerba but washed, traveler mate because good is what you can carry. And "cimarrão". This is ours, it is a sadness next to it. Look at the beauty this is. Decoration, everything. Beautiful. And this one, yes, with the herb they use here, which is a little different, but hey, they are brothers. So, one and one. Oh yes, this one has a different flavor. Do you put any herbs or something in it? Yes, tea. Another presentation has. No, yes, this poor thing. Lucky we have water. Poor guy, but he has Argentine weed. Even the light bulb is impressive. Between Lagoa dos Patos and the Atlantic Ocean, an isthmus of 250 kilometers extends, which, in some points, is only hundreds of meters wide. This natural barrier protects the lagoon from the open sea and forms unique ecosystems, such as mobile dunes, virgin beaches and wetlands. On this isthmus is the Lagoa dos Peixes National Park, a protected area of \u200b\u200b36,700 hectares that seeks to protect coastal ecosystems. and the migratory birds that depend on them. God be with you. Enjoy the trip on the raft (ferry). Yes, we\'re going to rest there for a moment. I think in São José we are going to buy something for lunch and we are going to eat on the raft. So well, again, thank you very much. A pleasure, really. Thank you so much. And well, there we are talking. We hope to see you again at some point either here or in Argentina, or on the road. 209 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:33,000 Nobody knows. Thank you very much again, Elsa and Beto. A pleasure to have met you. And today with the intention of leaving the peninsula. We are about, now 20 km from the canal, from having to take the raft to continue on. I think we are not going to reach the raft at the time we wanted at 10 in the morning because this wind has been quite strong from the front. We are also fortunate to have one raft per hour but most likely in São José do Norte we will have to wait. It will be good to eat something, replenish energy, get to know something about the town before going to the raft and crossing to Río Grande. It\'s like they heard me. Things we found on the route, new languages. They are new, several. There are some that are folded but well... We found them without searching, actually. Yes, because today when I was arranging things I was just seeing that my lingas were not enough for much more and I told Cruz "I\'m going to have to buy new ones." And Cruz achieved this on the road. I didn\'t see them. I didn\'t see them, I passed them by. They are small but we can improvise a big one with this. Ah, spectacular. Let\'s go quickly now because we still have to get to the raft. Well, we are now close to the waterway station. There are about 2-3 km left, according to calculations. Let\'s hope to get to the raft quickly. Behind me is the church of São José, this church built between 1830 and 1860 and which is the mother church of the area. Although formerly the main church was located in Estreito , which was the place where the couples who came from the Azores Islands to settle the area settled. But with the growth of this population it ended up moving here, to this church that is behind me and that honors the image of "Nossa Senhora Dos Navegantes." Here you can see some images, particularly this one, which is the image of Nossa Senhora dos Navegantes, the protector of sailors, which was brought from Bahia in 1876 \u200b\u200band which is now inside. And here the procession that takes place in his honor. How nice. How nice it would be to arrive one of these days and experience that. We actually arrived on time to take this raft but the initial idea was to take the one at 10 in the morning but it didn\'t turn out that bad, because at 10 in the morning we had to pay 12 reais per bike and the one now is 6. Because they are two different companies. What seems strange to me is that in terms of vehicles it is practically the same. The bicycles only have a difference. Because the one that charges us 6, costs 48 for cars, and the one that charges 12 for bicycles, costs 50 for the car. So well, issue that went quite well. We win. Yes. Over there is the mouth of Lagoa dos Patos. When it joins with the sea. A lagoon that looks like a sea, actually. Furious south wind. We are going south. Take it, I had it there, and I didn\'t give it to you. You have to take advantage of the 30-40 minutes that the navigation lasts. Let\'s eat the sandwiches that don\'t blow away To fight with this wind that comes from there.'}]