Exposure

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Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!

We just want to say thanks to all these people, couldn't have done it with out them!
Windcenter- OpenWinds, Gokite, IKC and Konan Lang

Samy of Gokite - Kitegirls Floripa

Bali-Hai - www.balihai.com.br

Evoluttion - www.evoluttionboats.com.br

www.formaesporteclube.com.br

Propão- for the food!

Konan Lang and Pedro Lang - welcoming us in their home

Cristian and Neo

and many more!

Thanks

Butterfly Effect Brazil Accomplished!!

High 5 for the Butterfly!

Juliana and I start the 1st international Butterfly Effect in Brazil

We had two trainers from the local gym FORMA ESPORTE CLUBE(http://www.formaesporteclube.com.br/) run us through a warm up before getting in the water
Adrien from Open Winds gets the jetski and water patrol ready Butterfly Effect Brazil 2007 T-shirts were handed out to all the girls participating in the event and also to all the guys who helped out.Caicanga Beach-The start of the Buttefly Effect Downwind
BuTtErFly EfFeCt!!
Kites and sails!

Today a bunch of watergirls from around the world meet up at Open Winds Store early in the morning to get ready for the day of the Butterfly Effect. Girls from Sweden, Argentina, Hawaii, and of course Brazil joined in. We had many activites planned including a warm up, lunch and snacks, the excursion with the rockin' out Kombi to the beach were we finally started the down wind. The start was at Ponta da Caicanga and the ending destination was Ribeirao da Ilha. The wind conditions were light and from the south.

Even with the light winds we had a great time with some windsurfing freestyle tricks and the kiters were flying by. On the way down there was a lot of wind life along the sides of us like flying fish and dolphins. The whole way down the guys were watching after us on the jetski.

Thanks to all the sponsors for helping make this event.

Windcenter- Naish Store

We stopped by the Naish center of Florianoplois. Its located right on the water and has a school with the gear ready to go! Makes it just that much more easy to hit the water faster!

Sign up at Open Winds

Now is the time to sign up for the Butterfly Effect. Open Winds and the Windcenter have everything ready for you. Just go in and ask for the Butterfly Effect.

Adrien Karadek- kitesurf champion of Ibiraquera Wave Contest is one of the "Butterfly Angels". The Butterfly Angels are the men of the Butterfly Effect that will be assisting through out the event to make sure everything goes smoothly.
Brazilian Flag

Kombi ( Portuguese for Volkswagon Van)!!!!

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Neo, Juliana and I
Sometimes I was so nervous when we were driving, I just had to cover my eyes Come on everybody!

Olililililil!! We are so excited about this KOMBI!!

After meeting Neo at her company VIF, where she makes unique lyrcas and harnesses, she took us to pick up the "kombi" as they call it here. When she told us that we were going to be able to use this to do erands and stuff for the Butterfly Effect, we had no idea this is what was planned for us! It is so rad!! The Kombi has pumping music, black lights and tons of room to pile people in.

It wasn't so pleasant though in the beginning. We had mixed emotions while the egnition had a little trouble starting, the head lights were out, no power steering, and then we couldn't find the key for the gas. BUT..during this time of getting everything just right the most amazing thing happend! A beautiful purple butterfly flew right in front of us a landed on the windsheild wiper. It stayed for maybe 3 seconds and flew off never to be seen again. We both saw the same thing a stayed frozen a bit until we looked at each other and started screaming with excitement. We knew the butterfly was a good sign for the Butterfly Effect we were planning. After a while getting every thing squared away we where off..like a turtle! We just cruised the whole way home while the little mopeds speed by us. Even though it took us some time to get home we were still stoked and couldn't wait to show the rest of our friends our new ride. Every corner, gear switched, or hill climbed we patted the kombi on the back and congradulated it for its' hard work.

Moçambique

We have been non-stop action with Bruno as the leader. He is full of energy and never stops! We start early in the morning and keep going till midnight. Its always " come on! come on ! Let's go ! lets go! " Today we went surfing and caught some nice glassy wave just to ourselves.

More Ibiraquera!

Bol do Engenho Lanches
sugar cane juice made from the cow turning the machine- very sweet drink!
after the quick windsurf session
BRrrrr!

We heard the conditions were epic in Ibiraquera so we thought we should go back down from Floripa to get some good waves. We got our photographer Renato Tinoco(http://www.photomaniac.com.br/) and headed down for the day. It was windy and wavey when we were rigging up our sails and then we got in the water and the clouds got thick and the wind shut off! Competely! I caught one wave during that time but it turned out to be a disaster! I guess the uni and mast base didn't connect all the way. I was riding the wave and then all of a sudden the board was going one way and the sail was in my hands. I had to swim all the way back dragging the sail. The board, thankfully, washed to shore. After a long swim I finally made it make to shore with my sail still in one piece. Crazy Crazy. So, at least I got my exercise in even though there wasn't any windsurfing invovled!

Butterfly Effect Meeting- UPDATE

We all meet up to talk more and organize the event around some pizza last night.
The following is the current information for the event:

It is ideal for every participate to fill out a entry form in either of the two windsurf schools located around the Lagoon of Conceicao. Open winds or Windcenter

The meeting time for the Butterfly Effect is Saturday morning to meet at 8:00 at
OPEN WINDS store. There will be a bus for transportation to the event site.
Any questions email me at tatianahoward@gmail.com
See you all there!

Check out the view!

Florianopolis


back in the ranger that I was told had no brakes!

The Floripa local boys, Konan and Bruno, gave us a tour on the top of the mountain for the view of the ocean and lagoon. We piled into the ranger and held on tight for the bumpy mud road.

the traveling life of a windsurfer

at least the bags are easy to find

Windsurfers know how to travel light! :)

Imbituba

We went on a surf mission to Imbituba. It is a surf break where the professional surf circuit stops in Brazil for a contest. We were only 15 minutes away and thought we had to go check it out. After catching the bus we walked down the beach and found the surf spot. It was really glassy and had super nice waves. On the way back we got on the bus to Ibiraquera but it turns out there are two Ibiraqueras. We are staying in Ibiraquera BARRA not Ibiraquera IBIRAQUERA!! After a much longer bus ride than we had in the beginning we decided we should ask. Sure enough we were on the wrong bus. After stopping the bus in the middle of its route, the people on the bus all chipped in and gave us advice, taxi numbers and locations on where to go to get back to our little "pousada" for the night.