- The Adventure Begins
- Getting There is Half the Fun
- Triunfo de la Cruz
- Triunfo de la Cruz II
- Lancetilla Botanical Gardens
- Christmas in Triunfo de la Cruz
- Fishing
- Copan Ruinas
- The Mayan Ruins at Copan
- Final Thoughts
- Wenyao's Photos
(Winter 2003 Albums » Honduras)
Fishing
Fri, Dec 26
Everyone was feeling good and the seas looked calm so we went fishing! We were supposed to head to an area near a little village called Colorado, quite some distance past Punta Izopo (a 90 min boat ride with a 40hp motor).
Had an early 8am start from Triunfo. Heading east from Triunfo past Punta Izopo, you see lots of greenery and the occasional hut on the beach. Those who live around here (including the inhabitants of the 20 or so houses in Colorado) have to make their way on foot or on horses to Triunfo for supplies.
We stopped by a village along the way to get extra gas after we realised the outboard motor was burning it up too quickly. I guess I shouldn't have been surprised to find that all the men were completely drunk!
After dropping our nets we bought 10 fish from a passing fisherman, a quarter of his catch for the morning! After Fausto and Mario descaled and degutted them I helped to season them with garlic, salt and this strange yellow powder which Miguel couldn't identify it until Jianyun revealed that it was just Maggi chicken stock, totally destroying the mystique of our exotic yellow spice.
Waiting for the fish to get BBQed was torture considering out non-breakfast of orange juice and coffee. And some of the fish we bought had about 5 million bones and I was lucky to get a few mouthfuls of flesh out of those. We didn't get no sa-tis-fac-tion.
Finally it was time to check the nets and with high hopes we headed out to sea. I believe the first net yielded 8 or 9 fish and it just went downhill from there. In the end we netted 15 fish, and after dividing them up there were 4 left for our dinner.
Choppy seas on the ride back video: AVI (610kB)
We had to stop by an Indian village to get more gas - of course the 4 strange Chinese tourists received plenty of stares again. The seas were choppy most of the way back, and we were all starving but when we got back we had Nissin cup noodles while waiting for the pasta with freshly caught fish to be ready and we were so hungry that it tasted like the best food we'd ever had. Funny how that works out...
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