Jungle Jim
Guest
We hit the beach last Saturday 25 June 22 south of Santo Tomas at the tidy little fish camp known as Campo Pescadero. There were seven nice pangas, two launching trailers and a clean shack behind the dunes. No one was home. From there we drove up the beach past Santo Tomas, Playa Palomas then to the most horrid shit hole imaginable known as Punta Jaguey.
In that short cruise we counted twenty two dead sea turtles. Nineteen were Olive Ridley's, two were Loggerheads and a single Hawksbill. Saw two long dead Fin Whales. The most recent was quite a sight with the blubber boiling in puddles under the rotting hide from the heat and humidity.
Watched an Osprey stripping the meat from a good sized Corvina while perched on a dead Olive Ridley Sea Turtle. Saw three obese male Fringe-Toed Sand Lizards rush out from under dead turtles only to rush back to the shade, cover and windfall of maggots and carrion beetles.
From our entry on to the beach to our exit we must have seen more than a thousand Finescale Triggerfish heads washed up, obviously long line action.
Jaguey was engaged in a pearl oyster death-fest. There were thousands of them piled up on the beach used to make a ramp up to the dunes where the camp is located. The black death flies were thicker than we have ever seen..anywhere. I tried to talk to the five dirty young boys splitting the oysters but they wouldn't talk, just a nasty scowl and hateful grin. Musta been at least twenty starving and thirsty dogs wandering around. From the camp out on the dirt road to the highway there were piles and piles of rotting Panamanic Pearl Oysters. None had the meat removed.......meaning that they were harvesting them for THE PEARLS! Gotta take at least a thousand to even find one small pearl.
Later,
JJ
In that short cruise we counted twenty two dead sea turtles. Nineteen were Olive Ridley's, two were Loggerheads and a single Hawksbill. Saw two long dead Fin Whales. The most recent was quite a sight with the blubber boiling in puddles under the rotting hide from the heat and humidity.
Watched an Osprey stripping the meat from a good sized Corvina while perched on a dead Olive Ridley Sea Turtle. Saw three obese male Fringe-Toed Sand Lizards rush out from under dead turtles only to rush back to the shade, cover and windfall of maggots and carrion beetles.
From our entry on to the beach to our exit we must have seen more than a thousand Finescale Triggerfish heads washed up, obviously long line action.
Jaguey was engaged in a pearl oyster death-fest. There were thousands of them piled up on the beach used to make a ramp up to the dunes where the camp is located. The black death flies were thicker than we have ever seen..anywhere. I tried to talk to the five dirty young boys splitting the oysters but they wouldn't talk, just a nasty scowl and hateful grin. Musta been at least twenty starving and thirsty dogs wandering around. From the camp out on the dirt road to the highway there were piles and piles of rotting Panamanic Pearl Oysters. None had the meat removed.......meaning that they were harvesting them for THE PEARLS! Gotta take at least a thousand to even find one small pearl.
Later,
JJ
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