I Feel Like Surfing.

Nisa — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:56:43 +0000

I literally feel like getting out there. I’d do anything for a nice swim in the ocean! Feeling the water & sun on my skin would make me the happiest person right now … Yes, as you can see I’m so up for leaving this very minute! Here’s a little insight on my summer vacation (then you’ll probably understand why I’m so desperate): it consisted of one single dip in the ocean! Just one! How come? Cause the weather was bloody bad. But I guess I should be happy anyway – right now the weather situation in Thailand is much much worse. Still, swimming in the rain is fun and all but it wasn’t the kind of action I was hoping for :/

Anyway, enough of that. Since the weather is pretty shitty in Vienna as well, I wanted to post something to cheer me (and maybe you too) up. So here are a couple of our best surfing photos from Tahiti, Brazil & Indonesia. Wanderlust caution for all you surfers & water rats out there!!!

Perfect wave riding at Teahupoo, Tahiti.

Dennis Tihara surfing at Teahupoo, Tahiti.

Small but fine waves in the north of Brazil.

Up for the next one at Teahupoo, Tahiti.

Surfing in Indonesia is heaps of fun.

Tuber rider Dennis Tihara at Teahupoo, Tahiti.

Can this surfer make it look any easier?

The Landscape Of Lençóis Maranhenses National Park In Brazil.

Ulli — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:29:10 +0000

The area of the Lençóis Maranhenses National Park looks like out of space; dunes just like in Sahara desert, halted by some freshwater ponds. Some of them don’t dry out, even if temperatures are really high for a few month. Here are a couple of photos of this unreal landscape in the north of Brazil:

Lençóis Maranhenses National Park is an area of low, flat, occasionally flooded land, overlaid with large, discrete sand dunes. It encompasses roughly 1.500 km2, and despite abundant rain, supports almost no vegetation.

Composed of large, white, sweeping dunes, at first glance Lençóis Maranhenses looks like an archetypal desert, but in fact it is not an actual desert. Lying just outside the Amazon Basin, the region is subject to a regular rain season during the beginning of the year.

The rains cause a peculiar phenomenon: fresh water collects in the valleys between sand dunes and is prevented from percolating down by a laeyer of impermeable rock which lies underneath the sand. The resulting blue, green and black “lagoons” are surrounded by the desert-like sand, and reach their fullest between July and September.

The national park status serves only as a means of protecting the area’s ecology; consequently many people reside in the park, as is also the case with nearby Jericoacoara. The inhabitants work primarily as fishermen.

Travel Photography Blog by Nisa Maier and Ulli Maier. » Brazil

I Feel Like Surfing.

The Landscape Of Lençóis Maranhenses National Park In Brazil.