Seaweed, Sand, & Surf -Feb.7

Every time we look out to the beach it looks different. The tides are extreme right now. At low tide the bare sand is about a 1/2 mile wide, at high tide only about 100 feet. ...see pic at low tide.
As low tide approaches, a large group of women heads into the water with large grain bags to harvest a specific type of seaweed that they "farm" here. It can be dried, & used in food as a thickener. They drag the wet, 60-70 lb filled bags in to shore and then hoist them up on to their heads to cross the sand to where it is spread to dry. Fred has been out helping the girls hoist them up. (we have seen men & women carrying up to about 200lbs on their heads...wow!) labour intensive.
Amongst all this the local guys are coming and going in their sailing dhows on their daily fishing trips. They mostly leave at dusk and are back by day break. Everything from squid, marlin, kingfish, & octopus are brought back and put on the menu for anyone to consume.
Also the ever present kite surfers are out everyday, all day.