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Sierra Club Monthly Program: Adventures in Northeast Brazil and the Amazon

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November 27, 2013 at 01:43pm. Views: 98

The San Gorgonio Chapter of the Sierra Club will hold its monthly meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 3 at the San Bernardino County Museum in Redlands at 7:30 p.m. This month’s program is a slide presentation by Ladd and Gail Seekins of their recent trip to Brazil. The program is titled: “Adventures in Northeast Brazil and the Amazon." Ladd and Gail began and ended their trip in Salvador, Bahia State, the center of Afro-Brazilian culture and the original colonial capital. Their trip included visiting several national parks, beach towns and cities rich in colonial Brazilian history, as well as an Amazon jungle lodge adventure. Highlights of their trip included touring the caves and hiking the mountains of Chapada Diamantina National Park, visiting the sea turtle rescue station at Praia do Forte, beach and dune buggy adventuring at Natal and Jericoacoara, swimming with the dolphins at Praia da Pipa, cruising the river at Barreirinhas, walking through the unique dune-and-lake landscape of Lençóis Maranhenses National Park, exploring the Amazon rainforest, and strolling the cobbled colonial streets of Salvador, Recife, Olinda, São Luís, Alcântara Belém and Manaus, cities that with a little imagination still exist partly in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. They ended their adventure in the rustic beach town of Morro de São Paulo. Gail is retired from working as a public health nurse for San Bernardino County; she volunteers for the Girl Scouts, her church, the Sierra Club and runs a folk dance club. Ladd has a wholesale distribution business of flowers and florist supplies in San Bernardino. He is the Chapter Treasurer & Program Chair for the San Gorgonio Chapter. All are welcome to attend the meeting. Parking and admission are free. The San Bernardino County Museum is located at 2024 Orange Tree Lane, Redlands.

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