Essaouira is primarily a fishing village, and as such has a really
vibrant and active local port.
We strolled down to the dock late in the afternoon and had an
amazing experience soaking up the hustle and bustle of boats arriving in with
the day’s catch. Given the somewhat unsteady state of our bellies, things were
not helped by breathing in the stench of fish guts littering the ground, and
the sight of locals gutting fish to sell all along our path.
It was a humbling experience to look in on the true definition of an
honest days work. We watched the locals work extremely hard fixing and
maintaining their boats, unloading and sorting their catch, and scrape together
a living by selling a few fish in the evening.
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