all morning on Elendil! We are eleven and purpose of the day is to photograph the whale from the water, we have not neglected anything, media, men, women, actors and supporting actors, good weather, we hope you do not miss their last lead actor, sperm!
the first round begins at 9 on the lookout: Didier, Nicole, Eliane. It was not long for someone to report black fins: whales are accompanied by dolphins. Do you feel the breath and check immediately after you see the head and the back of the giant marine environment and, if you're lucky, even the elegant tail.
More and more lies beneath the emergence and long jump is nice and large, the dive is about a minute, a minute and a half and it is often difficult to see the air more than the dorsal fin . Sometimes also show that just where not expect it, reverses course, passes under the hull, faithfully escorted by dolphins. Over time we begin to glimpse underwater, white lateral fin stands out as an emerald set in an aquamarine glass and get ready to shoot by pointing the remote at the right place where you plan on breaking the surface like a blue night sky. Then they catch sight of two others, the follow for half an hour, but they continue to elude us. Francoise is hanging by a rope on the side of the boat with the underwater camera, ready to dive into the sea at any moment, goes up and down several times with careful maneuvering of Didier and Erik, but it is always too far away from the whale. Then nothing. Then we take a bath to relieve sun burned skin, but I just threw myself is now time to leave, because Mark has heard the hydrophone sounds important. Still hunting for about an hour, finally we get tired of following this humpback shy and try to find out the other, but have no luck and then towards the middle we stop for a snack. At one o'clock we were again in search of sperm whales, but only we spot a large group of dolphins with whom we try to swim, even this fails. It is not the day.
At 16 we return to Cumberland with a few feet of film that you can use as teaching materials; Ghetto-man is ready to take us to Barrouillie: a fishing village, not yet entered the global village. Houses painted in a kaleidoscope of colors, open sewers, and children playing in the street, a football field as the central square, a sleepy police station, a naked little girl is washed by her mother at the fountain ... cries and struggles, perhaps the water temperature is too cold, but as soon as we can see, the wonder that is all the crying stops, opens his mouth and remains petrified like the statue of a nymph, with great satisfaction of the mother, but does not allow us to photograph.
But the real purpose of the trip is to visit and talk with those who hunt and slaughter the whales. To the left of the dock where we landed there, in fact, an entire living area of \u200b\u200bthe proceeds of the whale: the boats of fishermen that fish such as Alex, the old that the slaughter that Bini and adolescents with chlorine to bleach the bones sell the first tourists who dare to get here. When Marco pulls out his camera and takes the kids, then with an LCD screen now shows the movie, everyone go crazy and start to make plays and faces, children, teens, adults. Just look at Carlos impassive and a bit 'fed up enough that such a small device to keep your head to an entire country.
The boys have also heads of pilot whales and Alex we draw on the sand with a thin cane in the missing part of the body, take some rib / vertebra while chanting Bini continues to repeat that there is no problem and if we return next week there is also the teeth to find anything else. Lastly the children, even with their photos, home movies and skits, short Marco truly risks being overwhelmed by the enthusiasm and Alex has to intervene to calm the mob. Luckily end of the tape and the camera becomes an object useless back to the boat, not before saying goodbye to all the Caribbean way: fist fist and then his fist on his chest.
Returning enjoyed in wonderful sunset over the sea, then go to other goods, as yesterday's bar for a rum punch, but I prefer me a last bath to cool the feet which to me are inflating. Go into the boat, finally alone, I am taking a refreshing shower.
Tonight we eat on board, while a return appearance in the cockpit of the other crew, a beautiful full moon rises behind the black silhouette of the palms and under the deafening noise of the _____ (small frogs that sing as We cicadas). It is then I hear them call and I'll get to shore with the dinghy.
Dinner is pasta made with broccoli and goat cheese, all washed down with good French red wine. After dinner still visit Rome and those of Genesis, but this time do not eat and drink, instead we see a videotape of a meeting with beautiful and long-finned pilot whales (dated May 2000 and location of the sighting was near the Turks and Caicos) , could be an example of how our present and was not, but we must be content and then the journey is just beginning.
We are all very tired, especially Corinne and Eliane laughing because the beak always yawning or eyes closed, I could stick with the damn French!
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