1977
From the first of January I started with Mineraçao Sao Jose in Brasil. Spent
the first few months working from Rio de Janeiro, then moved to Curitiba.

1977 Rio de Janeiro, Copacabana

At home in Curitiba [77 Curitiba house 5]

77 Rescue operation after a spontaneous fire while driving in our Rural.
My father joined me on this fieldtrip.

MSJ fieldoffice at Iporanga in Parana
1978
Rio de Janeiro, where we lived below the Pão de
Açúcar in Urca. Working throughout Brasil, mainly in the Northeast up into
Ceara, where we had a base in Camocim.

Departing from the apartment in Urca

The beach at Pao de Azucar around the corner from where we live

78 Pepa with Giovanna Maraschin sitting in our hammock at the hotel Camocim
in Ceara
1979
Started working for Billiton (then a subsidiary of Shell Petroleum company of
the Netherlands) and based in Salvador, Bahia. The project I worked on was close
to the Boquira lead (PbO) mine and we lived in the village of Oliveiros dos
Brejinhos.

Pepa at the back of our house in Oliveiros dos Bejinhos.
Start of the rainy season

Fieldoffice at Oliveiros dos Bejinhos

Market in front of our house, Oliveiros dos Bejinhos.

Oliveiros dos Bejinhos

Carnaval 1979 Salvador (Bahia)