A HOME ON THE DUNES - ALGODOAL ISLAND - PARÁ - BRAZIL

In 2009 I visited the Algodoal Island, in the extreme north of Brazil. A type of island in which fresh and salt water mixes, the river and the ocean, and where electric power had come just a few years earlier. There, I met two students from the capital of Pará, Belém, who had roots on the Island. And one day we went to visit their aunt, teacher of the island’s children, who still lived there. But her house had not been built on the streets. She and her family lived in the midst of the dunes, near the sea.

Arriving at the house

Constructed with reused wooden boards and tree branches, the house had two floors and five people lived there. In 15 years, the house had been assembled and disassembled many times, due to the dunes movement. There were electric power, refrigerator and household items.

At one point, she left us to pick up the fish that would be served for lunch and that was stuck in a bamboo trapped inside the sea. In a short time, she came back and then we had lunch one of the best fish I ever ate. It couldn’t be any fresher! (There are no photos of this fish. It was so fast! And bone pictures are not appetizing).

Front door view. There's the bamboo trapped, where the fishes get stuck.

Invisible wall

We talked for a long time and I learned a lot about the simple and magical life she and her family lived on the island. And I just fell in love with the warm simplicity I found in that place.

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