 Costão do Santinho; arriving early in the morning. |
 Costão do Santinho; fishers waiting the tainha shoal. Tainha is portuguese name for "mullet". |
 Costão do Santinho; fishers waiting the tainha shoal. |
 Costão do Santinho; A.R. Leão (left), Norton José, Marcelo (fishers' guide) and another fisher. |
 Costão do Santinho; in this side of the beach, the fish shoal did not appear. |
 Then, we walked to the other beach extremity where the fishing was going on. |
 Costão do Santinho. |
 Costão do Santinho; people observing the fishing. |
 Fishers and passers-by, when pulling the net. |
 Norton in serious work. |
 Costão do Santinho; many people pulling the net. |
 Costão do Santinho; it is a popular feast. |
 Costão do Santinho. |
 Costão do Santinho; tainha is arriving. |
 Costão do Santinho. |
 Costão do Santinho. |
 Costão do Santinho; tainha is in the net. |
 Costão do Santinho. |
 Costão do Santinho; tainha is taken out of the net and assembled in the sand. |
 Costão do Santinho. |
 Costão do Santinho. |
 Costão do Santinho; tainha is taken out of the net and assembled in the sand. |
 Costão do Santinho. |
 Costão do Santinho; Norton and Marcelo. |
 Costão do Santinho; everyone participates. |
 Costão do Santinho; the moment of glory; fishing is successful. |
 Costão do Santinho; the man at the left is the owner of the boat (from which the net was launched); he gets 50% of the fishing. |
 Costão do Santinho; fishers, passers-by, children, dogs.... everyone is happy with this 4000 tainhas caught. |
 Costão do Santinho; Leão and Norton in the picture. |
 Costão do Santinho; passers-by can carry home some tainhas. |
 Barra da Lagoa, another place in Florianópolis island where the tainha fishing is a common activity. |
 Barra da Lagoa; the tainhas are placed in baskets for commercial selling. |
 Barra da Lagoa. |
 Barra da Lagoa; the tainhas in baskets for commercial selling. |
 Barra da Lagoa; here a small boat arrived from the sea. |
 Barra da Lagoa. |
 Barra da Lagoa. |
 Barra da Lagoa. |
 Barra da Lagoa; a restaurant offering .... fresh tainha, of course. |
 Barra da Lagoa; repairing the boat. |
 Barra da Lagoa; this guy, 'seu Valdir', is cleaning 2 tainhas for my friend Norton. |
 Barra da Lagoa. |
 Barra da Lagoa; the tainha and its eggs, strongly appreciated; it is the "poor man´s" caviar. |
 Barra da Lagoa. |
 Barra da Lagoa; one of the fishers. |
 The poor tainhas; who said that they don't suffer???? |
 But, in a different moment, I have some mixted feelings about it. |
 Fried ou barbecued, they are delicious. |