Mexican Occupations
The town of San Quintin is anything but a tourist town. Located about 100 miles south of Ensenada, its’ major industry is truck farming, growing vegetables for North American markets. Most people work for the large farms, and we’re told many are young men from the mainland of Mexico who live in dormitories and on weekends spend their time getting into trouble. This contributes to San Quintin’s shaky reputation and why we said earlier that we would not camp alone here. But not everyone here works on the farms.
These pictures show three other ways of making a living that also occur here. The woman on the left pushes a small wooden (even the wheel is wooden) wheelbarrow around among the homes to sell vegetables. We bought a pack of 10 tomatoes for 10 pesos, or about 80 cents. The picture on the left shows a fishing boat just offshore from our camp spot. We bought fresh shrimp , tuna and mussels yesterday for 85 pesos per kilo, or a little more $3.00 per pound. The men in the foreground spent several hours on the beach in front of our camp spot this morning. Some of the time they were just horsing around and playing football. The rest of the time they were in the surf with buckets in their hands and digging up “chocolate” clams with their feet!
What do we do all day?
Well, you’ve heard about sitting in the sun, reading and having happy hour, but here are pictures of our other “occupations” from our day at San Quintin.
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