Interesting drive over here this morning. Driving through farm land, olives, oranges, some crops under plastic.
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| Farm Land |
The ground is very stony, many low stone walls, presumably made from rocks removed from the fields. It is also very dry looking. There is a lot of scope for
Permaculture here. The soil I could see also looked as if is could use a lot of good nutrition from compost.
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| Mediterranean Fishing |
There appear to be a lot of small farming and I would have to guess much of it is a struggle. There is a certain amount of fishing here going by what I saw in Siracuse. Although I would have expected to see a greater quantity of fishing vessels there. However, it could be that Siracusa is not a fishing port. When I walk around Pozzallo I might learn more. Having said that I have to question how fishing is in the Mediterranean at this point in time? and a quick search turned up this
site. Apparently fishing is only good where there are good conservation programs.
Pozzallo is a small somewhat sleepy town, or certainly at this time of year is is. There again I keep forgetting it is the Christmas holidays, I wonder what the availability of work is like here? There is what looks a large port just to the west, this is where my ferry shall be leaving from in the morning.
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| Oranges |
There are orange trees planted along the main drag which I find a nice touch and across the street is a wide paved area where many of the town's mature citizens stroll and walk their dogs in the evenings.
My
dinner this evening was a kebab burger, quite tasty and filling. It needs to be filling as I probaly will not get anything in the morning. The place I am staying in, which calls itself a B & B is missing the second B. Apparently the only provide it during he summer!
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| Kebab Burger |
There is a marina shown on the map to the west of the port, perhaps the do some yacht charters from there, for there is some beautiful sailing offshore, there has been a lovely breeze from the south all day, with temperatures hovering around 18 degrees
