I saw these fishermen on their jetty having food and drinks so walked along the jetty and asked in my best bad Afrikaans if they minded if I took photos of them. They addressed me as Tannie (which means Auntie and is a respectful form of address in the Afrikaans culture). When I asked them if they were just in from fishing or about to go out, I was told both. They came in this morning after being out at sea fishing in the deep ocean overnight. It was a long, and very cold night, I was told. And now they are waiting for the mist to lift enough for them to go out and fish the surface
VML their laid back attitude chaps. There doesn’t seem to be a great amount of space for their next endeavour. Particularly like the limpets on the stanchions.
@anniesue Thank you. I was very glad when I saw the one guy donning the orange weatherproof. I was trying to get him in the shot as much as possible, but he was the one who moved off rather a lot, and unfortunately the one who got into the boat that is sort of hidden at the back
@s4sayer There is not a lot of space in those little boats. They are not built for comfort at all. The interior is divided into little compartments to store the fish - I guess to keep the boat stable even when it rolls so that all the fish doesn't slide to one side of the boat.
@meotzi Thank you very much. I am not very familiar with all the different types of fish, but it appears to me that they mostly come back with a lot of mullet (locally known as harder). I suspect the mullet are the surface fish they were talking about. I don't know what the deep fish would be that they were out during the night for, but possibly chad, galjoen, steenbras, snoek, hake ...
@narayani Thanks Narayani. Yes the tide was extremely low. And yes those boats are awfully small - there is no way I would want to go out to sea in a little boat like that!
I love this composition. The jetties seem to be encircling them protectively.