Those Filipino farmers are fun
Sunday, July 30th, 2006This’ll be short but brief. I’ve annotated the pictures to help you out. While on holiday, I had the opportunity to dine with two farmers (although they sometimes fish for their food too, as the 2nd photo attests).
Poor though they might be, they know how to make the best of what they have! All in-all, it was an interesting short trip to one of the less dangerous islands in the philippine archepelago.
The area might look a little run down, but the woods just off from their little shack provides more than enough game and natural vegetation for their needs.
The dog meat was a little chewy, but strangely it somehow tasted fine with the plantain.
Perhaps I’ll get my cook to rustle something similar up back at home. Although perhaps she would balk somewhat at the thought of roasting a whole dog on a spit.
It was a glorious afternoon on the beach. One of the natives had to go and collect his catch as the tide was starting to come in.
The netting was made of coarse hemp and wire - they’d managed to salvage buoyancy aids from a shipwreck some months ago. The jury-rigged tool worked remarkably well.
Well done farmers! A+ for ingenuity and resourcefulness in this remote village habitat.
What a glorious place to live though.
? Grim… 