The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

Nature is really wonderful sometimes. Just like this Devil Coast, the shore is endless desert, semi-desert, and many places are even directly into the sea with sand dunes, and the life resources on the land are barren.

The sea is extremely rich in aquatic products. A long offshore area of ​​more than 2,000 kilometers from north to south is the richest super fishing ground in the southern hemisphere, extending from the Cape of Good Hope to the southern coast of Angola.

All kinds of sardines, anchovies, hake, horse mackerel resources are exploding, tongue sole, Namibian deep-sea crab, lobster, albacore and bigeye tuna, etc. There are also many, what you really want!

Judging from the map, such a long stretch of offshore coastline has no big rivers to enter the sea. Zhang Nan, who is not very familiar with the ocean, judged that the formation of this super fishing ground should be due to ocean currents, not organic matter brought by the estuary.

As for the warm current or the cold current

Don't know, don't understand, and don't care.

I have seen enough of the landscape where the wasteland, the desert and the ocean intersect. I was about to leave the cofferdam and noticed a motorized boat approaching here.

Without asking, someone told Zhang Nan that the boat belonged to the mine, and he went around the fishing boat on the sea.

Those large and small fishing vessels are fishing nearby. As for the fish, the large vessels simply freeze them directly on board the assembly line, and then either send them south to Walvis Bay or north to southern Angola.

The smaller one is refrigerated. Every one or two days, there will be a special fish ship connected to Walvis Bay Port for transportation, and then deep processing at the processing plant over there.

Local consumption is only small, and most seafood will eventually be shipped to Europe and the United States for sale.

The vast majority of seafood exports are not only due to Namibia’s small population and large aquatic products, but also because of the people themselves.

The local blacks in West Africa are very interesting. Many of them are rich people who don't like seafood, but poor people only like it.

For example, lobster, which is expensive in China, was a prisoner in the United States a hundred years ago, but it is slightly better in Africa today, and it is by no means as high-end beef.

Special circumstances caused by eating habits Most of the black coastal people think that the processing of seafood is too troublesome, especially some shells. The pre-processing has been a long time before they get a little bit of meat.

Trouble, it is more convenient to eat beef and mutton, this is the diet of many African blacks.

Is it really because you are not used to it?

That's nice

To put it bluntly, it is because of laziness in the bones!

Too lazy to just want to eat meat, too lazy not to study food, too lazy to just think about how to fill up the stomach with the simplest way, is it not good to eat and sunbathe?

There is no shortage of budget in this experimental mining area, the logistics is also do-it-yourself, and there are many white employees.

Some time ago, I saw that there are fishing boats working almost every day on the sea. Between frozen meat and seafood, most people think the latter is more attractive, so just let two people drive a small boat to buy it at sea every few days.

The freshest seafood, the price is cheap, this time the boss is here, more prepared.

Don’t worry if they don’t sell it. It’s just a small offshore fishing boat, and it’s not the big guys on the open sea. It doesn’t take a lot of trouble to rely on help to stop the boat.

Besides, no captain is willing to offend the people of the mining group, and it's not that they don't pay.

The boat with an external engine can directly wash the beach. After a while, Zhang Nan saw what was on the boat.

Several large buckets, two of them were filled with alive rock lobsters, bought from a shrimp boat with prawn pots, they were all varieties without big tongs.

The size is very average, a single one is about one pound, which is incomparable with a single two, three kilograms, even five or six kilograms of giant tongs lobsters in East Africa.

This is the South African rock lobster. Very few can grow to more than 500 grams.

Regardless of its size, the meat is indeed very good, and most of the exporters sell it at high prices!

When in Botswana, fresh seafood from the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean will arrive every three to five, and lobster is indispensable.

Zhang Nan didn't eat less. Personally, he felt that the rock lobster from the South Atlantic seemed to be tenderer than the rose dragon from Mozambique. No wonder the rich people like the little devil especially like it.

In the other large buckets, there are several kinds of soles with different appearances, covered with a layer of crushed ice.

The specific varieties can't be said, the large ones can weigh more than ten kilograms, the small ones weigh two or three kilograms, and the long and nearly round ones can be found.

Because the nearby fishing boats belong to offshore fishing, deep-sea crabs, cod and tuna are not available. As for cheap horse mackerel and various types of sardines, people in the mining area will not buy them.

The handling process is simple, it is best to have less thorns. Few guys in the mining area have used chopsticks.

"I want to eat fish at night. I want two lobsters. Give me a sole, which looks like an insole."

Zhang Nan likes to eat seafood, and this sole fish and lobster will never be enough. As for how to do it, don’t worry about it. With a Chinese chef, you won’t come to an African way of roasting.

It will not be cooked in salt water, which is a common western style of eating, and a little lemon juice will be used when eating it.

Wild people eat like that!

Leaving the cofferdam, I did not rush to the camp~www.wuxiaspot.com~ but walked south along the coastline.

I saw it before when I was still on a plane, this Devil Coast deserves its reputation!

In addition to the shipwreck dug from the cofferdam, there are several shipwrecks on a section of coastline just a few kilometers away.

"No one knows how many ships have been swept over the reefs and shores by the trade winds in this sea area in the past few hundred years. Just a few hundred kilometers away, you can see the wreckage of ships within a few kilometers. stranded.

Ocean ships, trawlers, medieval Spanish galleons, 19th century clippers, and even gunboats from decades ago."

Mr. Polo has been accompanying him, seeing the boss interested in the wreckage, and talked freely.

There was the wreckage of a steel ship not far away. “That’s the Sudekus, a high-horsepower trawler made in South Africa. It was scraped here on its maiden voyage 20 years ago, and several crew members died. , Really unlucky.

Less than one kilometer ahead, there is a Japanese whaling ship, which sank ten years ago and is well preserved. A few people and I climbed in to see it the other day.

Less than a hundred meters away is a British ocean-going vessel that ran aground in the 1950s. It should be the kind of freewheel that was mass-produced by the United States during World War II. It was so rotten that there was only a rotten shell.

A few jeeps specially modified with wide tires drove over from behind, so that the terrain is suitable and won't get stuck.

It's okay to watch the shipwreck, it takes a few kilometers to go back and forth, and it's tiring to walk.

Before getting in the car, a bodyguard who opened in front kicked something under his feet.

Most of it was stuck in the sand, and due to the intuition of the military personnel, this man's boots were scratched around him.

Noting that the boss and his party looked over, this one said, "It's a skull."

It is not uncommon to find human bones on the Devil Coast. There are countless shipwrecks and even more unjust dead!