Last post from Brazil

Here are some scenery pictures from Santa Catarina Island, taken yesterday as we drove around. The first was taken at a scenic overlook called Morro das Pedras (hill of the rocks), looking northeast back at another part of the island. The second was taken further south, from the beach at Pântano do Sul, looking further south toward the end of the island. There are sandy beaches nearly all around the island, mountains and lakes in the middle, and smaller islands offshore. This is winter, of course, so nothing is particularly busy, but in the summer high season it's clearly a beach-resort area.
We have been looking somewhat anxiously at the track of Hurricane Dean in the Caribbean, but it looks like it is moving slowly and nearly due west and so will not be threatening the Texas coast when our plane lands in DFW tomorrow at about 6:00 am. The direct threat seems to be to the Yucatan sometime on Tuesday.