Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Other Island Sites


Children selling charms on the street is a frequent site. They're everywhere. That and women offering hair braiding. Tourism drives the local economy.
Here's a local grocery store.


Nick and his bird friend who quacks and barks.








Cruise ships come in regularly as locals sell trinkets for a few dollars. Namely t-shirts, jewelry and wooden carvings. A common phrase is "hey mister, $1, $1" as we watched about ten kids ask tourists for money and then return to give it to an adult after the tourists returned to the boat.
Loose pigs weren't common, but trash and stray dogs were the norm appearing everywhere.

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