Hey there again, it's me, Daniel A.k.a Question 23. This time i'm going to talk about the time i worked in the deep interior of northeast region in Brazil, a poor but really hospitable and beautiful area. I used to work with construction of eolic generator sites and power substations, so my company used to move me from place to place as soon as the projects started or ended. One of those times they sent me to work on the region between the brazilian states of Piauí, Ceará and Pernambuco. The site was situated in the rural area of a city caled "Caldeirão Grande do Piauí" something like Piauí's Big Cauldron. The city was really small but realy friendly, the site brought a lot of development for the people from that region. On the road to the site there are a lot of humble houses, from people that lived there since the beggining of their lives, some of them never been to a big city. And if you asked them they would say they are really happy about it, they coundn't imagine living in a different place.
As soon as i reached there for the first time, i notices how different it was from the places i've already met in Brazil, it had a different kind of vegetation, it's called "Caatinga", it was dry with little brushes and small trees, and a rich fauna, sometime later and i learned that that vegetation changed a lot with the different stages of the year, from a dry and brown view to a full green vegetation.
I saw a lot of animals that i had never seen before, there was an abundance of reptiles, like snakes and iguanas, as i was droving to the construction site daily i registered some of them on the dirt roads. The construction site was really vast, had more than 200km of trails connecting the different regions. I would ocasionally get lost there, and there wasn't any cellphone signal, so if i didn't find the way out i'd probably had to sleep on the car in the middle of the trail, thank god that never happened haha.
(Here's a beautiful snake, i waited on the road to prevent any other car from running it over)
(This is a Iguana, it ran back to the bushes a little after that picture.)
IT was a very simple place, there were no nice restaurants, not much infrastructure, some of the residents in the area used to put tables on their yard and serve food for us workers, homemade food directly from the area, it was very different and very nice.
In one of those restaurants i snapped a pic of a beautiful woodpecker, resting inside a cave he made on a tree, with just the tip of his head looking at us, you can see his red toupee and small beak.
(Here is the shy guy)
I saw a lot of different insects there too, like this Phasmid and this one that looked perfectly like a dry leave and a huge tarantula spider.
Other thing that i loved to witness was the beautiful mix of colors and cloud formations the sky there used to show, i recorded a lot of pictures from those skies. At night it was magical too, the sky was so clear and had almost zero artificial lights, so the stars and the moon would irradiate (or reflect) so much light in some nights that it i was able to see everything in the middle of the night, it was really stunning, unfortunately my cellphone camera couldn't capture any of that, it's recorded only in my eyes and memory.
(Check out this sunset, this picture doesn't have any filters on it by the way.)
(This one looks like an eye in the sky in my opinion, what do you think?)
Other situation used to get my attention were the rock formations. There were a lot of different mountains or literally piled rocks, and i used to stop to look at them and imagine the chain of geological events over milions of years that could make those rocks stay in those kinds of positions and balance themselves like that.
Those are some of the sights i recorded there, hope i could show a little bit of the interior of Brazilian Northeast region, see you guys again soon.