04/25/2008, Cayo Herradura, Tortuga
That far away from mainland services, fishermen in Cayo Herradura will often offer a trade of fish for a surprising variety of items - including toilet paper, earphones, batteries along with the more expected characters: rum, soda and cigarettes. However, we had no rum, soda or ciggies on board to trade, but the fish looked good, so I offered chocolate! The fishermen jumped at the chance for chocolate, so much so that they returned a few days later suggesting another trade and then a few days later, we asked if they wanted some "liquid chocolate". You can see their answer in the Hershey's syrup can in the hand of one of the smiling fishermen.
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04/15/2008, Tortuga Island
One of the fishing camps on Cayo Herradura, a little horseshoe-shaped island of sand on the north side of Tortuga Island. Inside you can see one of the many shrines to the Virgin of the Valley that dot the landscape of Venezuela. Clearly, there are no "services" here - there's barely enough sand piled up to call it a key. But it was a perfect anchorage and we stayed there for over two weeks.
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04/14/2008, The sand spit on the southern tip of Cayo Herradura, Tortuga
He must have been lost but he was still flocking. After that day, he disappeared, so we're hoping he moved on to find his own flock and is now working hard on improving his pinkness! Thanks to Elaine on Zydeco, our buddy boat for much of last season, for snapping the picture!
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04/13/2008, in Cayo Herradura, Tortuga
Most of the boats in the picture are the local fishing boats. The big blue shrimp trawler is actually a cruising boat - Twilight. They have a huge watermaker on board and were very generous with it, giving as much water to the local fishermen as they wanted. The fishermen were so grateful that Twilight kept coming out to their back deck and finding another fish, or more lobster being given to them as thank you's that they filled up their freezer!
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