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Brazil 2016 (September)

Collecting Coffee Pollen and Nectar

Week 8 - 9/5/2016

  • Return to BR with BEL :)

  • Vitoria stop-over, shopping

  • Flower monitoring following the rain

  • Work and beach time

Week 9 - 9/12/2016

  • Called in the IAR crew for a flowering event on 9/13 - this makes our 6th and last scheduled sampling event...but we stayed for an extra to make up for the rain-foiled event back in August

  • Living the local life, farmers market right down the street, beach time, and of course catching up on work

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Sugar Cane Juice

Week 10 - 9/18/2016

  • No flowers opening this week

  • Neighborhood horses

  • beach time

  • Trip to Vitoria for a change of view and some shopping - included getting rear ended while waiting at a red light

Week 11 - 9/25/2016

  • After the rain, the flowers are moving, time to call in IAR, Ed, Marce, and Migue

  • This will be the final sampling, so as our stay winds down, we appreciate more and more the adventure that it has been

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