This month one of our Mozambique aerial images entitled "the Nets of Banque" was featured in the National Geographic Traveller.
This is one of my favorite images from the Bazaruto Archipelago and one of the more surreal of the collection.
For me the mind blowing beauty of the Bazaruto Archipelago
can only truly be experienced while staring open mouthed out of
the window of a cockpit.
Here a fishing net lies suspended like
seaweed in the turquoise shallows as the local fishermen haul in
their catch near Banque Island; the smallest and least developed
island of the five in the Archipelago.
The lives of the fishermen
of the Bazaruto move in tandem with the tides of the Indian Ocean.
They leave at dawn in their traditional wooden dhows to do what
their ancestors have done for centuries; sail the azure blues in
search of fish for themselves and their families. Today’s
glistening catch gets pulled in, quicksilver in the nets.
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