Ancient fishing nets of Kerala

March 6, 2009  |  General
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Ancient fish­ing nets of Ker­ala, ori­gin­ally uploaded by James & Cesca.

These nets, raised and lowered 100 times a day, are sup­posedly from
the time of the mon­gols. Either way they work and Cesca and I had fun
join­ing the four man crew in pulling the net out of the water. The
catch: one puffer fish, apar­ently thanks to the box­ing day tsunami.

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  1. in devon, they have a word they use loc­ally a lot.. ” grockle “. they apply it to people who walk around gaz­ing at things, occa­sion­ally stop­ping for no reason and point­ing at things that have been there for years and that no local per­son really notices anymore.…

    but although the loc­als actu­ally des­pise these grokles, they encour­age them for the one part of them that they find facinating…

    their wal­let.

  2. I know all about “Grockles” as my fam­ily all hail from Brix­ham. I can tell you that the rela­tion­ship between these people and the loc­als is more com­plic­ated than you claim. Devon people know that the area requires tour­ists to sur­vive and indeed many of the busi­nesses are setup only to facil­it­ate the tour­ist trade. Moreover, Devon­shire people are jus­ti­fi­ably proud of their home and its beauty and very happy with tour­ists who “get it”.

    “Grockles” are that sort of tour­ist that are hol­low and cares little for the area or the people. “Day trip­pers” and people on “tours” fill up the place to its brim, in the sum­mer, and many loc­als find this annoying.

    They have noth­ing in com­mon with us. For a start we are not “monied”. We are not tour­ists, but trav­el­ers and we are not part of the summer-influx. In post­ing images like this I have two motivations:

    1. It’s a nice pic­ture isn’t it — the iPhone does take very good images given it has only a 2mp camera!

    2. It shows, for those who will never visit there — pre­sum­ably this includes Mr. Dur­den — how beau­ti­ful it is. These are work­ing fish­ing nets, some of the old­est in the world. A pic­ture of such has its own value.

  3. sev­eral years ago me and my part­ner tried to move to devon namely brix­ham we got as far as rent­ing a flat there because we fell in love with the place we were once grockles, it was some­thing we wanted to do for years, we loved the people and the coast line very dif­fer­ent from our nat­ive essex sadly my part­ner found work straight away but i struggled badly i can under­stand devon­shire people being proud of there county,its a shame that most of the work down there is sea­sonal all an all i sit here dream­ing of one day return­ing there to the beau­ti­ful place i once called home so any offers of employ­ment would be grate­fully received lol!!

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