Guarapari, April 2019
Guarapari was just a technical stop on our way to the Abrolhos archipelago. Nice town.
Guarapari, Brazil
And on the way there we caught a nice Mahi mahi that Yuka cooked to perfection.
Mahi Mahi in Brazil
We anchored in front of a gated community with beautiful villas along a natural reserve, where wealthy people from Vitoria have their vacation houses. Mostly coffee exporters, I heard.
Gated community in Guarapari
We felt very welcomed by the people living there, and the guards let us land with the dinghy on the beach and take a Uber to go downtown and visit the only monument that survived in town: Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceição.
The Guarapari anchorage seen from land — Oroboro at anchor in the turquoise bay, lush Atlantic Forest vegetation in the foreground
Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceição, Guarapari — the 16th-century colonial church, one of the oldest structures surviving in town
Yuka at the blue side door of the colonial church — the cobblestone mosaic surround and the plaque reading 1585 mark its founding year
Ruins of a colonial-era building adjacent to the church — exposed stone arches and crumbling brick walls slowly reclaimed by time
The town is very new with the usual tall buildings along the beach, a nice waterfront but not much more. It was a Saturday, and it was interesting to watch people enjoying the beach.
Guarapari's urban beachfront — apartment blocks rise behind a rocky shoreline typical of the Espírito Santo coast
Saturday afternoon on the beach — locals settle in around a vendor's cart as a stormy dusk rolls in from the sea
Guarapari beach at night — the seafront promenade stretches into the distance, streetlights reflecting on wet sand under a dark stormy sky
Time to get to Vitoria, another technical stop on the way to the Abrolhos archipelago!
S/V Oroboro GPS track — Espírito Santo — May 2019 • GPS data from Raymarine chartplotter • Map © OpenStreetMap contributors
Every anchorage — Brazil — Espírito Santo, May 2019
Two technical stops as we headed north towards the Abrolhos archipelago.
| Stop | Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Guarapari | May 2019 | Technical stop · Mahi Mahi catch |
| Vitória | May 2019 | Iate Clube · flew to Brasília & São Paulo |
Anchorage maps
Zoomed-in charts of each stop in Espírito Santo, with GPS track overlay.
Guarapari
Vitória
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. GPS tracks from Raymarine chartplotter, archived May 2019.