Banda Kuu Local Customs

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When the tide is slow, local people hand about the water and look for something in the shallow water... very mysterious... eventually I started to realize: some people looked for shellfish hidden under seaweed and corals, while other were out to see what their rudimental (but effective) traps had caught. There seemed to be an abundance of shelfish - sadly enough it never found it way onto our plates, as no restaurant was serving it. On rare occasions we also saw some women gather seaweeds, which they then hung to dry so that they culd be used to fertilize the earth.