Kids playing at the beach next to Freddie Mercury's in Stonetown.
One week a month the tide drains like thisg
There is one week each month with ~14 foot tide swings. During that time women gather shellfish for themselves and to sell. The shellfish have been depleted close to shore, so they have to walk about a mile out to find them. A days work yields $3US - $4US..
Constructed by hand from Mango trees, Dhows are ubiquitous fishing boats on Zanzibar. This photograph is looking out over the bow, under it's single sail.
Anytime the tide's high enough the boys are always swimming.
She will earn maybe $1-$2 for the day's work picking Anodera clams on this tide.
No tools, they just feel for them with fingers an inch or two down, in the mud.
Kids in the village of Fumba.
Lines are tied between the sticks and seaweed hung over the lines. Over time, more and more seaweed attaches until there is enough to harvest.
I like the bag.
Kids in villages of Zanzibar.
It's hard to get a true sense of scale. If you walk from where I took this picture to the people at water's edge, it would take 15-20 minutes.
Outside of the main food market.
If you've not grown up here, it might be a good idea to avoid the stuff that you can't peel.
An elementary school in Unguja Kuu.
One of us broght pencils. I asked if I could take some pictures on the playground. None of them would put their pencil down.
Kids in villages of Zanzibar.
Dried husks of coconut get spum by hand into the ubiquitous rope that's used everywhere.
Heading home jusrt after the tide turned. The buckets are filled with chaza (Swahil for shellfish), and weigh 25-40lbs.
Water Buffalo pulling carts through the Zanzibar countryside.
Dhow casting off it's mooring at midday in Nungwi. In another hour or two the wind will come up, they will sail for a couple of hours in whichever direction puts them on a reach, put their nets out, and go to sleep. Then they'll head home and sell fish to the market.
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Zanzibar
