Day 2: Sunrise with the fishermen

Today was an early start for our first day of shark and ray surveying. Chess and I woke up at 4:50am, before the sun was up, to walk the 7km to Coconut Bay, one of our survey spots. We got there just after sunrise around 6:30am. However, when we turned the corner into the bay we saw that it was deserted apart from a few fishing boats piled up on the shore and one lonely vessel, no bigger than a child's single bed, being towed out to sea. We approach the old fisherman and his son and tried, in very broken Portuguese, to ask them if we could record their catch. After a few confused minutes we realised they didn't speak Portuguese but understood a little English. They told us they used lines on rods to fish and that they went out about 11 times a day.  We're surveying gill net and long line fishermen so we left these two in peace for the morning. 

Old fishermen and his son prepare to launch at Coconut Bay