Last week we took half day break from surfing and ...went fishing. The fishing trip cost us $ 35 per hour which taking 6 people on board was $ 35 per couple. It was really a nice sunny day, the guys who owned the boat put 4 rods in the water and we were waiting....and I was the lucky one to catch the first jack mackarel;))))It was the biggest fish I had ever caught in my life!!!At least 6 kilos!!!We managed to get 8 of them after 2 hours only...and were ready for a big fire and grilled nice fish. Alvaro helped us to clear them, we made the fire ...and put the first fillet on it. At first sight it actually looked like a big, nice, meaty, full-blooded steak!!!yumm, yummm you would say...But after the first bite-well to cut it short - very intense taste. We had like at least 8 fillets (we gave the other fish away) but we managed to eat 2 of them between 6 of us. We had to kill the taste with the rum-there was no other option. Actually until now I a kind of shake off on the sole thought of it....
But guys what I am talking about...the rainy season came-just four days ago. And actually we do not see it so much by the amount of rain...as by the amount of crabs..we are officially in the state of war against them. It is after 9 on a hot tropical evening and I am sitting on the chair on our beautiful patio with my legs up as the floor below me is actually moving. We have like around 50 crabs around us and all of them are trying to get into our room. It all started 4 nights ago when the first raindrops fell. I woke up in the middle of the night hearing some strange noises: some small tip-topping, some crawling. I got off the bed and put the light on...and here we are: at bunch of nice, quite friendly-looking, black, orange and violet crabs, not so big though-a size of my palm, running swiftly, sideways along the walls. For fuck sake-I said!!!The sole imagination of that small animal crawling on me and pinching my ears gave me the goose skin. Unfortunately we are bigger then them and apologies to all animal-friendly people but we had to kill some of them and throw them away. We slept ok but we found some more of them hiding behind our backpacks and in our shoes in the morning. From our patio we gathered the full bucket of them. Next night was pretty quiet. We figured out during the day that they squeeze in between the spaces between our door (we have one net door and one wooden). We slept with both door closed but there was no rain during night-so no unexpected visitors either. Last night we had enough-even with the both doors closed they slipped in after some rain. We threw them away from our patio. Now we are actually thinking about the strategy to scare them off from our room. I think we must investigate the problem on internet-they are definitely looking for a dry place, we are trying to build some kind of a bridge for them so that they can walk away freely from our patio and find some other nice place under some plants maybe or basically away from us. We will solar-tape our door tonight and will see if it works. For the time being though we are observing their habits and keep our legs up (In the morning one of them managed to crawl on the chair I am sitting in now and jump on my thigh). Alvaro actually told us that the amount of crabs now is nothing comparing to the real rainy season. We are laughing that in each country in South and Central America we are in we have to have a small fight with the local animals: we have had frogs, mice, cockroaches during some nights...but I would never say I would have to fight with crabs (FYI there are not eatable).
The life here seems to really go around nature and animals. Yesterday after morning coffee we found out that a kind of monkey who was hanging on the tree the day before died.....Today a small kitten who was missing for a couple of days was found somewhere near power generator. We will see what will happen tomorrow;))))
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