just another night's work

these are the fishermen in my village heading out for another night of fishing. they go out at sundown and come home about an hour or so after sunrise. someday i will do that too, just as soon as i get over the fact that i will be in a tiny little canoe in a huge ocean and in the dark for 12 of the 13 hours im out there. oh yeah, trying to catch fish that hopefully are big, but not big enough to eat me. and actually thats the easy part. getting out past the breakers (i.e. wave on the left of pic) and coming back inside in the mornings is actually the hard part. this picture was on a very calm day. normally i am out there in the evenings helping the men get out past the waves and helping save them and the boat when they dont make it. but its ok, they make it about 60% of the time. the boats are in about 2 feet of water now, but past the waves, it deepens out to 10,20,50, and so on. in the mornings they sell their catch, or give it away in the form of payment for a favor done in the past, or to be done in the future.