Morocco Field Report 1: The haggles, hassles and hustles of Casa & Fez

Morocco Field Report 2: Belly Dancing Berbers & Barbary Apes

Morocco Field Report 3: Rocking the Kasbahs and Girdling Goat Trees

> Morocco Field Report 4: Boats, Cats and Castles Made of Sand

I'm too lazy to type in my journal notes, so I'll just post some of the pictures. Sometimes pictures are far more telling, and we weren't doing a lot except relaxing and flâneuring the ramparts, docks and medinas, and Essaouira was a good place to do this, far more laidback than the rest of Morocco. These are from the Atlantic Coast, starting In Essaouira (pictured above) and up the coast through El Jadida and to Casa Blanca. 

there seemed to be an inordinate amount of cats in Essaouira, for the most part healthy and happy and free

the harbor in Essaouira

I developed this thing for putting my shadow in the pictures

the mellah in Essaouira, the old Jewish quarter that was now ransacked, the pillaged evidence still could be seen for sale in the markets

the shipyard

getting an impromptu demonstration of how they build boats

seafood fest at the open stalls in Essaouira--calamari, fish and weird langostine bug creatures

cat sleeping in the buoys

a Berber poet that wrote script in solder. Some of his work might be in the next sleepingfish if I can get a hold of him.

there was a huge difference in the low and high tides (at low tide this was a beach they played soccer on)

sand designs

supposedly (so say the locals in Essaouira), this is what inspired Jimi Hendrix's Castles Made of Sand

Orson Welles filmed a lot of Othello in Essaouira

a cistern in El Jadida that Orson Welles used in the movie Othello (you can recognize it in these pics)

some of the best oysters we've ever had, in Oualidia, at Ostrea II

unidentified biological object

beach we stayed on outside of El Jadida

the "Portuguese City" in El Jadida

more happy cats and drying sheepskins

the ramparts of the Portuguese City

drying clothes and carcasses

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