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Just a few meters walk from the windfarm in Bangui where rough rocks jut from the seashore amidst a backdrop of verdant and rolling hills, big waves crash on these sharp and stony feature. Here seaweed gatherers converge to gather these plants for food or to be sold in the market. I have seen to kinds, those that are brownish in color which the gatherers extract from the sharp rocks and those in the calm pools.
These gatherers play cat and mouse with the waves. When the huge waves come crashing to the rocks, they run mad and when the water subsides, quickly dart to the sharp rocks to gather the brownish plants.
This man was waiting for the waters to recede but a forthcoming wave is never far behind.
This woman holding her precious day’s harvest formed into seaweed balls.
Two different kinds of seaweeds, two different places to be harvested.
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