Tulear scenes

Meat market.  The meat looks good now at 7:30am.  Not so much at 15:30 later in the day.

Coffee shop on the way to IHSM.  Yeah, it's the table and bench under the tree.  I am pretty sure they serve food also.

Boy with homemade toy truck -- a bit hard to make out.  I am often at a distance when I take pictures including people.

The WCS office at IHSM (Institute Haliotechnique et Science Marine).  Only the two blue doors.  Very small but it was good to have a place to work.

The Za Za disco club . . .

. . . has some nice art outside . . .

. . . and some wild times inside.

The restaurant (hotely) where I ate my first Malagasy meal.  Very good.  Tahine took me there at my request.  Big ball of rice, a small dish of beef in red sauce, and a somewhat larger dish of what appeared to be pickled shredded turnip and carrot.  All very tasty and not spicy hot.  Not even close.  But there was a tiny dish of brownish green sauce that was some of the hottest I've ever encountered.  I only used a few dabs, but almost started hiccuping when I ate a whole dab in one bite.  And oh yeah -- I paid $2.50 for both of us to eat.

My second hotel.  Rooms cost $10.  Not sure what the Nauti Club is but it sounds promising . . .

The view from my balcony

The coffee stand across the street from the hotel.  I've never been a customer.  I always go next door, the Bo Beach, a French run restaurant with internet.  Cafe au lait avec croissant runs about $1.50 there.

The departure point for the boats to Anakao is at the end of this road.

The boats are loaded and unloaded by zebu cart.  Zebu carts are widely used for hauling things around.

And this is one of the boats to Anakao.  A pirogue.  There are a few motorboats for hire, but most people travel in these.

Another pirogue.  This one's been fishing.  They are everywhere.   I still haven't figured out quite how they work.  There's an outrigger, a mast held up by three stays, the v-mounted gaff, and a square sail.  They seem to sail in all kinds of wind.  But I don't know how close to the wind they can point.  But they can really rip.

And a lot of the guys who use them are really ripped too.