...that it practically leapt into the car. With the Super Blue Blood Moon peaking overhead, the tides down below are impressing the coastal shore. Magic Seaweed predicted a good day of waves so we jumped in the car and headed to the beach. As we pulled up, I could see more than 100 yards of seabed exposed. It was an impressive low tide.
Oops! Guess I can't hold my phone level. Or maybe the earth shifted off its axis! Fallen slabs of ancient lava flows lie exposed during the tide. It looks like someone poured hundreds of meters of smooth upright slabs and they tipped over like dominos.
The fishermen pull their boats out at high tide, take off the outboard motors to store securely. The boats are pulled up on the sand bank. To launch a boat, they get 2 very large round logs, place 1 under the bow, pick up the stern and roll the boat forward, then place the 2nd log under the bow and roll forward. This boat has some distance to travel before finding water.
We didn't see any surfers out at the point. Deciding that the waves were too small, I went for a quick dip in the water. I waded out to about thigh high depth. The current moving north east was so strong that I didn't want to lift my feet off the bottom. I felt that I'd get picked up and float out to sea. We remembered that Miguel said he'd back today from fishing. He'd been very lucky and offered us 2 large snappers at $4 USD per kilo.
Once the fish were home and we watched a couple of YouTube videos describing how to "butcher" a snapper, M sharpened a knife. It looks so easy in the videos... "place the knife here, slide it there"... and like magic, you have filets of snapper. Well, I guess it will take some practice. M worked those fish for about an hour and we have 4 fine filets.
We'll get several meals from these fine fish. I made over 2 liters of fish broth: 1 liter to freeze and 2nd liter to make fish soup. I watched a YouTube with a Caribbean cook who added plantains and a Scotch bonnet pepper to the recipe. We have lots of green plantains though no hot peppers. It was dark when I remembered that Jon has bushes of hot peppers growing. However, no walking to his farm at night.
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