Private Island anyone?

Armando, one of the Recife Moto Club members and a good friend of Tacio's invited us to a day out on his boat. After another very full breakfast at Tacio's we met up with Armando and his son Armando Jnr (who had begged a day off school to come with us).

Armando has life sorted. He is married to Marcia - an attractive, charming, hard working business woman (she has the exclusive import rights to Calvin Kline in Brazil). He doesn't work, well why would you? His only gripe is that Marcia limits his bike trips to a maximum 40 days at a time - poor chap.I tell you this to explain the next picture:

This is a picture of the armoured glass in the car. It is an inch thick, adds 300 kgs to the weight (that would be the same as strapping my bike to the car) and $20,000 to the price. The plating is for all the windows, doors and roof! By the way cars and bikes cost at least twice as much as in the UK due to import taxes - before adding things like armoured glass. A Range Rover here costs $250,000.

They keep their day boat about 90kms away (I can't remember the name of the town) from Recife. It is a small fishing village that is being turned in to the rich peoples weekend retreat. The boat was waiting for us when we arrived and appropriately stocked with cooler boxes full of goodies.

With junior at the wheel we motored out to a little private island which was recently sold for $7m dollars. Armando apologised for the lack of clarity in the water but there had been some stormy days that had churned up the sand.

By the way - that is our umbrella on the beach (keeping the beer out of the sun). After all, who would want to go to a beach that was crowded with other people. After a picnic lunch and several beers he took us past some great beach houses and through the mangrove. 

 We didn't see any alligators but they are there apparently. My camera had run out of battery at this point but suffice to say - it was not budget housing!

 

I told you they have an unnatural love with Harley Davidson's - to the point they put stickers on everything!

After a wonderful day we went back in to Recife for a pizza dinner and to say farewell to a few people - all of whom had been so kind and generous to us.
Armando gave us a great day out, nothing seems too much trouble for these kind people. Thank you once again.