In the afternoon of the day we were leaving, we went to the beach a few miles from Carey and Chad's house. There we found many shells that had washed to shore during high tide, although Carey said there were probably more earlier when the high tide left and were already picked up by other people. We wanted to fly a kite, but no wind. There were men with a boat, a truck and large nets on the beach. They were netting sardines out of the ocean.
Just over the ridge on the other side of the beach road, we saw hundreds of thousands of sardines laid out on the sand drying. The fishermen load the nets into the back of pickup trucks and haul them over the drying area to dump them out and spread them out to dry.
We watched as the fishermen tried to launch their boat by pulling it with the truck,
but when they were not successful, they decided to push the boat out into the water with the truck instead!
The seagulls are helpful to the fisherman to show where the schools of sardines are.
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