This week we visited a place of which we had heard.
It's located less than 20 miles from where we live.
It's located less than 20 miles from where we live.
We came upon several places with these little
red flowers on top of rocks.
Beauty can be found anywhere if you look well.
There is a sign on the highway indicating where to turn in for the community of São Gonçalo, but after you enter, there are numerous forks in the dirt road, and no more signs.
Best advice: Just stop at a house that looks occupied,
watch out for dogs, and ask for the cave drawings.
We hiked through the entire mountain pass where a good sized stream must have run at some time in ancient history,
and did not spot the petroglyphs.
There happened to be a small number of people hunting for a local rodent called "mocó." They were having quite the "covid party" back in the woods cooking up their tasty prizes
on a spit far from any supervision.
I was glad we had on bright colors in the bland environment.
One of their group indicated that we had passed right
by the paintings, but that it was much
easier to see them on the way back.
With that small tidbit of information we just kept looking as we headed back out the way we had come in.
Once a blue hummingbird buzzed my head.
I was glad it wasn't a pellet from an airgun of
one of the mocó hunters!
In the middle of the high rock walls there is a small stream which attracts birds and other small critters.
My husband has a good eye and an calculating brain. He spotted the paintings on the right hand side as we were exiting the area. We had to climb up a man-made support wall to get up to the spot.
Once again, no signs, no indications, no guides.
I had to take a breather!
On our way home we had hoped to take a loop back to the highway, but alas the road was blocked off by a series of gates, the first of which was locked. Later we met a man we lives on that strip and invited us to visit him, but it was much later in the day.
Instead we had to go out as we'd come in and went on a route entering in on the lake side of the highway in the direction of Algodão Novo where we came upon a unique "gated community" of about twenty houses. Their gate had a sign telling people to wash their hands and spray the bottom of their shoes
before coming in! Covid cleaning station!
Since we couldn't go out from São Gonçalo the way we had intended, we went in from the opposite end
over the mountain to Brejo de Dentro.
There is a sign on the highway for this community.
There we found this beautiful strip of rock road.
Must be an area where the road was always getting washed out.
Brejo de Dentro is a good sized town in a little valley.
Someone mentioned there is spring of water in the immediate area.
The small town of about 50 houses or more has a small Catholic chapel and an Assembly of God church, several stores,
but we did not see a school.
Just past the small community we continued on to find the end of the road on that side. We found it at a place called Serra Grande where we stopped at this house. There were about 8 houses, no electricity, but they have a spring of water nearby.
We made this afternoon trip in the yellow sandrail. We traveled less than 100 kilometers or 62 miles. We left our house around 10:00 in the morning, spent around 2 hours at the mountain pass, stopped and talked at about five houses,
and got home around 5:00 in the afternoon.
Nice day trip!
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