What is littoral, and how you can earn on it

Ocean littoral is one of the most beautiful places associated with the Zanzibar archipelago. Tourists are not advised to go there, but if you visited Zanzibar and did not go to the littoral, consider that you went in vain. Local residents do not have many options for earning in kind, and one of the main ones is littoral work.

So, littoral is a section of the coast that is flooded with sea water at high tide and drained at low tide. Behind it is the sublittoral - a large area where the depth shines with the ebb tide, but not to the end. This place is used for ... marine gardens:

Your six hundredths, the Zanzibar version.

Algae are grown in vegetable gardens, which are then used for all sorts of needs - from culinary to domestic. The arrangement of the garden is very primitive: sticks are driven into the sand, on which the ropes are pulled and plants are attached to them.

These sticks stick out hundreds and hundreds of meters along the coast.

There are gardens and littoral, they completely dry at low tide.

Harvested algae are dried along the coast on long sticks.

By the way, it is not necessary to grow algae on your own, you can also collect wild ones.

For an hour, you can collect a whole bucket.

In addition to algae, locals collect marine reptiles and shells.

I don’t know what they do with it later and who buys it, but judging by the fact that dozens of “collectors” constantly walk on the shore, this is a commercially viable activity.

Why is it dangerous for a tourist to go to the littoral? Because the seabed is fraught with various dangers. Firstly, there are a lot of sharp stones that can be injured.

Secondly, you may not notice a sea urchin. If you step on this thorn, there will be wound and suppuration.

There are still snakes.

If you get it out of the water, it sags and spreads like a jellyfish.

Ophiura - a mixture of sea urchin with a star.

In addition to collecting algae and marine reptiles, littoral earn fishing. Guys go into the sublittoral zone and swim with a prison in a mask.

Caught not only fish, but also octopuses.

In general, if you find yourself on a desert island, get a spear first, then you are provided with food.

He asked another seeker to show his catch.

Shells take half of the string bag, then they are sold to tourists.

There are also many shells on the shore, but they are not so beautiful and bright.

There are no trees here, the entire littoral consists of corals. They are collected in piles, dried, and then used to build houses.

Fishermen who catch from boats.

Women help unload prey.

Local teens.

Young people still catch on the net.

The sublittoral is generally very lively. Catch everything - from small to large.

Wells sometimes come across like a wide pit where the fish remains trapped at low tide. She, too, is caught in a different way: both with nets and with a hook.