Fish and Teeth
Pulling in the net
Wednesday 17th
I hired a scooter yesterday for three weeks. I have taken it back as the battery was duff and the brakes not brilliant. They told me to come back at twelve and it will be ready. I went at twelve – now it will be ready at two-thirty – nothing changes here. It’s no problem really as they let me have another while they fix it just inconvenient – they tend to forget you are on holiday.
I have just dropped Theresa off at the dentist for a clean and polish (her teeth that is!) should be about ten pounds.
It is very hot. Abnormally hot for the time of year according to the Goans. There has been a predominant easterly offshore wind for the last few days – it should be a cooling onshore westerly.
Regardless of the heat, the local fishermen spend long hours out in the full glare
Sharing out the catch
of the sun repairing nets while their wives layout the catch on the side roads to dry out. This fish is then used for salt-fish in the rainy season when it is too precarious to go out to sea to fish. Yesterday the fishermen spent all afternoon on the beach pulling in the net, sorting out the meager catch then repairing the net again. Very labour intensive and hardly worth it for the few baskets of fish they caught.
