Living on a beach in BrazilLiving on a beach in Brazil

I am sweating, look at that. I'm covered in sweat. I am walking a 30 kilo backpack, look at that behind me here, full of food, full of rice, flour, kumaras, carrots, things that keep. I'm walking it on a track, thank God for that, through the jungle here in Brazil. It's unbelievably hot, it's 30 degrees, I'm just sweating my arse off. It's unbelievably hot, it's 30 degrees, I'm just sweating my arse off. I'm panting, the track goes up and down and up and down and up and down. How much can you sweat? I must have lost liters of liquid. And just now, I stood still for a minute and there was a bright blue big butterfly. Peter always calls them flutterby. And I was thinking, you know, all of life is actually a flutterby. Before you know it, life has fluttered by. Goes so quick, doesn't it? Life is so fragile, just like that big blue butterfly. It's so beautiful, but I have to overcome the idea of sweat is no good. It is good. The more I sweat, the closer I am to Peter in the tent, in the sea. Hi Peter, what are you doing? Well, I'm here in Brazil, and I'm looking at what the mind didn't make. These ones are green. What's that? Oh, it's only small, but very tasty, no doubt. We decided to live on a beach in Brazil without road access. So we have to walk one hour and 15 minutes through the jungle or take a boat. So I'm walking today and I'm taking food up and it's another resupply day. And I realized there's actually two types of people. The first one sees everything like this as pure suffering. It's just hellish. And another one, like me, sees it as training. So this, for me, is just good training. I'm getting fitter and I'm getting stronger and suffering doesn't exist for me. And here in Brazil, it's jackfruit. The locals don't value it. It's basically free and you can make like a hundred different recipes with it. So here we go. Here's a jackfruit. Well, there it is. Here we go. A free jackfruit. This is a jackfruit. It's not ripe yet, but maybe in a few days. Isn't that fantastic? This is a jackfruit and it grows everywhere in Brazil, even in the middle of the city of Rio de Janeiro. So knowing us, of course, we go up there and we find them because this is good food. It's a fruit. It's a massive fruit. It's heavy too. It's probably five kilos, this thing. So we just cut it open and what you find is this. And this is your part you eat. Really nice. Absolutely fantastic. So if the jackfruit is unripe, the solution is to just boil it and it becomes like stewed apple. So this is another one of my recipes. Options are just endless. Another one of my recipes is empanadas with jackfruit. So here is a cooked jackfruit. I'm putting it here and I'm just making like a pancake wrap sort of a thing. A little water around the edges and then you just roll it up and fry it in a pan. Look at this. That's it. And fry it. Oh God, I nearly died. I went head over feet, head over feet like in a washing machine. I thought I'm going to drown. I'm never going to see daylight again. But luckily I got up again and I went straight back in because Peter always says if you don't go straight back in, you have fear forever. So that's what I did. Wow, it's hard. Well, another day of failure for me as a surfer. It's really hard to be a beginner. It's really hard. It's not nice. Actually, if you think about it, only as kids we are used to being a beginner. As an adult, we not often start from scratch. But I must say it's really humbling to know absolutely nothing, to make many mistakes and to learn really slowly. But I'm also learning a lot from the sea. When those big waves come, I'm thinking, ----, I'm going to die. But I'm learning to relax and surrender. Relax and surrender. There's a snake. It's bright green. Fantastic. Very nice to see. But I do recall that this particular one is quite poisonous. I think we're on the trail. It's getting a bit dark now. I think the trail is somewhere over there. It's kind of jungly like. There's a water here. Well, we decided today to walk up a mountain 1,000 meters, 3,000 feet. Everyone is warning us for snakes. It does look a bit snaky here. Could be snakes anywhere. Three snakes. Big spiders we've seen. And right now we're a bit lost. We don't know what to do now. Got all day to figure our way up. Look at these spikes. You wouldn't want to walk into them. The whole jungle is full of them. If it's not spikes, it's spiders or snakes. And make sure you never get lost like us now. All right, we're going to backtrack now. So really outside my comfort zone, not physically, but just knowing that there are snakes and spiders and all. We're just going to backtrack. It's easy, relatively, to see on trail. So far, so good. We've done 20 meters. Pretty good. Another 800 to go. We've got the Gaia GPS, but it's not picking up signals, so we can't see where we are. And that's when we got into the gully and off the spur, because we thought the path was on the spur. Not so. That's why we got lost. Well, it's raining now, but I guess it doesn't matter. We're already wet anyway. Go back to that spur. It's much easier than the gully. Thank God I'm not alone. I'm with Sean. How do you feel, Sean, being lost? Not really in danger, because we're not panicking. We can still hear the river. We have a feeling of the terrain. So we're just heading back. What do you think about snakes? I think they're wondering what we're doing up here. How about those tracks that we followed? There weren't any human tracks. Those were maybe panther tracks. Yeah, could be ant eaters or no idea. What do you find the biggest nuisance here? The spiky plants everywhere. They've got like four or five different models. Do you like the jungle? No. Ah, we're back on the trail. Well, the lesson learned is, if you're off-trail, really backtrack immediately. Do not try to cut through the jungle. That's just going from the fry pan into the fire. This is where we wanted to climb to, but if we had come to the top, we would not have seen anything because of the cloud. Well, we made it home, but now we're covered in ticks. Tiny, tiny ticks. I already took off 20. Just squashed them between my nails, but they're this tiny. Can you see it? Here. This is how tiny they are. Amazing, aren't they? Manioc contains cyanide, so you have to soak it first and then boil it for a long time until it's so soft you can put a fork in it. Like this. This is what the manioc looks like when it's cooked. Here we have two bottles of water. God knows where this water comes from. Somewhere out from the jungle there. Could be good to drink. Why not me? So, ever since we left New Zealand, where the water is super good up in the high mountains, we are a little bit more careful with filtering the water. So, what I bought is a SteriPen. This is a SteriPen. You just put it in the water for one minute and then at the end it's supposedly good to drink. I made a mistake. I've got one with batteries, but you can also buy one with a USB entrance and you can charge it on a solar panel. So, if I buy it again, I will buy the one with a USB. Now, my other one is my LifeStraw. This is perfect for drinking. Very good, very handy and you get a good bottle at the same time. But if you want to soak your muesli, you need a SteriPen. So, there you go. Greetings from Brazil. Really hard is all the mould on everything. I've got mould on the tent now and mould on my pack. This is my only pack. I just get wet with sweat and then it doesn't dry out quick enough and then it all gets mould. I've tried vinegar, I've tried washing it, I've tried putting it in the sun, but it doesn't really help. So, this is such a disadvantage of the tropics. And look at this. Natureza Selvagem. I found my own book in the bookshop in Paraty. So, here we are signing the books. you