Reflections

Paraty was built so that every day at high tide, the cobbled streets would flood. As the tide receeded, it would take with it the grit and grim accumulated since the last tide, leaving the town clean and freshly washed. The flip side being that the reflection of the buildings in the water makes quite a site.

Although our schedule and the tide's schedule did not coincide, we did manage to catch the last vestiges of the flooding before it seeped back from where it came. Three hundred and fifty years ago, did the engineers know that their public health model would become a tourist attraction?