The climate is sooo dry here during winter that humans easily ignite fires that can destroy large areas of savanna.
We also visited a quilombo community, which is a group of people that are supposedly descendants of original escaped slave communities, back when Brazil had slavery. The explanations were lacking by our guide, but we did get to peek around a bit.
Here's the mad cow that Marshall thought would gorge us while we walked!
And then to the first amazing waterfall, Santa Barbara!
We got to take a quick dip in the clear, blue blue blue water and saw lots of tadpoles swimming at the bottom. Our crazy guide also climbed up a tree to get some pics. . .
After some swimming we ate lunch, and then got ready to go again, during which I fell on the rocks near Marshall in the pic above right, and had some nasty bruising/gashes to show for it.
And some more pictures, not necessarily from that trip!! The red fruit is actually a cashew fruit, but it is a special kind that only grows in the Cerrado. I don't like regular cashew fruit that much here, but this caju-do-cerrado is really sweet and delicious! We ate them a lot on the hike on the second day of the trip.
Here's the bathrooms we used during camping! Surprisingly not bad. . . except for the gigantic cockroach! (Ele=He, Ela=She).
And a few pictures from the herpetology lab. The lake pictures are form my first turtle field experience, and the other is from one of our weekly meetings. . . lots of crazy people down here! The professor, Guarino, is furthest on the right.
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