Nov 27

We anchored off Buzios, Brazil at 8:am under sunny skies.  Only 2 tours were available; trolley tour around the area and beach tour with swimming by schooner.  We chose the latter.  It took quite awhile to get everyone to shore by tender and to board the schooners and we set sail about 9:45am.  We stopped at 5 beaches on 2 separate islands and swimming or snorkeling could be done from the schooner at 3 of them.  Only about 5 of the 100 or so passengers went in the water because the temperature was 64 degrees.  It was an interesting tour and we returned to the ship at the end because it had begun to rain.  People who took the trolley tour raved about it and said the town was very interesting to walk around.  We'll take that option when we return in a month.  The rain got progressively worse with lightning and thunder and, as everyone was back on the ship early, we left ahead of schedule.  In the middle of the night I awoke and noticed that we were sitting still in the Rio harbor.  We found out the next morning that there was an emergency medical evacuation.