Santo Antonio de Lisboa, Brazil Live Cam

Santo Antônio de Lisboa looks out over the shallow north bay of Florianópolis, where boats sit on the mud at low tide. The camera covers the moorings and the water beyond them.

Those shallows are farmed. Santa Catarina grows most of the oysters and mussels eaten in Brazil, and the racks and ropes are worked out of villages like this one along the bay.

The settlement dates from the 1750s, when families were brought from the Azores to hold the coast for Portugal. The whitewashed church above the shore and the street plan behind it are from that period, and Azorean cooking is what fills the restaurants now.