seascape 4

Another person to share with us their knowledge of the water, marks and seascape from their house, despite the beginning of the Tropical Storm Danny (didn't feel that tropical).



We're missing Erika and her skills in capturing the atmosphere of the place, but we're doing our best to follow on her footsteps.

Boat building

Windy days, even if Winston tells us that it's just a gentle breeze.

To continue the seascape project we went and met Frank, a boat builder in Tilting.


So much to hear about boat buildings and stories that happened to Frank, that we didn't have time to ask him about the seascape outside his window.

Marks

Earlier this week Ane and Aidan showed us some of the marks they use to find fishing shoals. They could cite by memory the names of about 70 shoals just outside of Joe Batt's Arm and would know the marks for each of them.

Seascape

Erika left, back to Geneva.
Now with a reduced team we started putting the material together for the final work.

Transcription of the video recordings of the seascapes

Dinner

As people invited us to eat some traditional food, we thought it would be nice to return the favour and invite them for a dinner in our house. We cooked a range of dishes (all vegetables and eggs from Winston's garden): quiches, brandade de morue (traditional mediterranean dish using salted cod), snow crab legs, coconut curry shrimps, scallops, salad, grilled salmon, roasted vegetables and a tarte tattin.
A very nice evening with accordion played by Joe and some singing from Greg and Melinda.

Seascape

As we were interested by the difference between the perception of the sea from an outsider as a flat surface and its understanding as a landscape with its hills, mountains, summits, valleys and plains by fishermen, Bonnie showed us a printed scroll she got from an old sonar system used in fishing boats showing the relief of the seascape. The sea as a chain of mountains.

Seascape

We're asking a few people about the features of the seascape over and underneath the surface from their window, this is Pete.
Pete describing the seascape from his back door

Jiggs dinner

Phyllis cooked us Jiggs dinner in her cabin.
Jiggs dinner is another traditional meal with salt meat, boiled vegetables, peas pudding, and dumplings, a cross between a British sunday lunch and a stew. The slat meat is a traditional way of preserving meat to last for the winter and the vegetables are the staple of the crop in Fogo Island's gardens.

On the way to Phyllis' and Frank's cabin

The Dough Boys, or dumplings

Markings

A boat trip with Pete showing us some marks to find fishing spots and hidden rocks, a triangulation method using the lining up of land features.

Presentation

Presentation of our respective practices at the Shorecast Foundation premises.

Fish and brewis

We're looking at the traditional meal prepared on Fogo Island, how the ingredients and the cooking methods illustrate the place and its origin.

Winston and Linda cooked us Fish and brewis with scrunchions, an old recipe of dry bread and salted cod with salt fat pork, or scrunchions. The recipe was one used on fishing boats when the crew was away for weeks or months and needed non perishable ingredients.

Winston's gardens

Winston cultivates a number of gardens, demonstrating the variety of vegetables that can grow on the Island. Traditionally all household had a garden, but with the more easily accessible shops and the fact that they need to be looked after at the same time as the fishing season, there are fewer gardens now.

One of Winston's garden

Punt

A quick row on Bonnie's punt -the traditional boat- in Tilting Harbour. Fishermen used to fish for cod on these boats.

Brimstone Head Festival

As part of the Brimstone Head Folk Festival, Elisabet participated in the square dancing.

Iceberg ice

As a refreshment, Bonnie offered us "Iceberg ice", literally a block of ice carved out of bits of icebergs passing by in spring.

Group

Mark Adams, Erika Irmler, Charles Blanc, Bonnie McCay, Tristan Surtees, on the Lion Den's track.

Here we start.