Puerto Lopez is a town of 15,000 people on the Pacific coast. Its economy depends on tourists from Ecuador, Columbia and Argentina as well as fishing.
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| View of Puerto Lopez from our hotel room |
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| our hotel |
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| view from our hotel room. |
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| Annalise and Kate on the hotel deck where we ate breakfast each morning |
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| Puerto Lopez beach at dusk |
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| Puerto Lopez housing |
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| more housing along a canal |
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| view of Puerto Lopez from the water |
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| mid-morning weighing and selling of shark caught each day |
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| men carrying a gutted shark to scale |
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| weighing a shark for sale |
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| men gutting and preparing fish to sell |
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| fish market at the beach |
What a wonderful trip this was! It must have been a treat to be on the water for awhile and take the boat to the island. I like the pics of the birds. The earthquake must have been devastating. Kit is certainly getting around! Maybe she and Annalise can write a story about her adventures😊
ReplyDeleteLooks like fishing and tourism are the main economies there.
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