We took a bus with Reuben and ride into town Sunday morning for 65 cents. A bargain, but with tired feet Sunday afternoon we took a cab back to the campground for 12 dollars. We were away four hours and Rusty spent the time snug aboard GANNET2 after I took him for a morning walk. He only likes to go to the bathroom outside the compound as he’s a very tidy dog. So he was settled and I felt fine leaving him especially as the day was going to be crowded with people.
Layne brought a new pocket camera back from the US, a Panasonic ZS99 with a long lens and a flip screen and she was ready to see what she could see so I stole her pictures to add to mine here. When we travel Layne is totally brazen asking shopkeepers for a photo but at the market she was busy just looking and snapping. Below I caught Rueben tasting the Pacific breeze and admiring the view of Iquique below.
The market operates all week but the big shopping days obviously are over the weekend, and it was busy yesterday. In the map below we are living off the bottom of the map by the beach.
The market is twice as big as you can see below.
Time to go wander.
I caught the fresh camomile:
Layne was enchanted by the smell of the fresh herbs and forget to stop by on the way back to pick some up:
The only fish stand we saw, photographed by Layne:
Chicken and pork rotating on spits, we walked by but this was going to be lunch on the way back.
Chicken was four bucks but we lived large with pork for six bucks a plate. The crackling was outstanding.
They did a land sale business constantly shuffling our plates of food from the kitchen.
Agregados in Chile are side dishes, French fries, potato salad, pasta, rice or salad were the sides on offer.
We paid fifty cents extra for a to-go box.
You got a box of delicious looking tomatoes for two and a half bucks, with the peso at 1,000 to the dollar the conversion is easy.
Four and a half dollars for thirty eggs. In South America eggs are never refrigerated which makes storage onboard easy.
This guy below was demonstrating kind of silly putty.
A peculiar sales technique:
And so home to a sleepy dog. Empanadas for dinner.
