Camped here on the beach, vendors come by in their trucks each morning offering fresh-picked vegetables, fruits, water re-fills (we have no hook-ups here), fresh baked bread, tamales, and empenadas. In the afternoons more vendors appear offering blankets, sombreros, jewelry and art objects. Our favorites are the veggie, fruit and seafood vendors.
For lunch today we had quesadillas stuffed with sauteed chard, onions and cheese. Next up, Bob heated salt water from the Bay in our pasta pot and cooked a lobster. Note to son Ryan: Cathryn was unable to watch this cooking and cleaning process without re-living David Foster Wallace’s essay “Consider the Lobster”, thus Bob had to do all the work to turn it into food.
Finally, when we gathered for cocktail hour with our travel mates, we ate barracuda on crackers, two fish caught by Greg in the morning and prepared in a soy, orange juice, chives, garlic and ketchup (unlikely ingredient, but it was delicious) sauce by Debbie.
Bob and Cathryn have seen lots of barracuda in Caribbean waters while scuba diving, but didn’t know it was edible and were pleased Greg pulled out his Fish Book to show us the description, including that it was “good to eat”. In fact, it was a delicious flaky white fish, and we all agreed we’d be happy to eat more if Greg or Doug would catch it.
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