Sunday, August 8, 2010

FRYING PAN


MARIA LUISA CAMACHO SALINAS
LA MAESTRA DE LA FREIDERA

Everyone calls her "Jacqui," because that was her grandmother's name.  No one thus far has been more instrumental in my explorations of Laguna San Ignacio than this woman.  She is the matron presiding over the whale camp where I've been staying for the last week.  This area of the lagoon is called La Freidera, which means "frying pan."  One hundred years ago when they were harvesting whales from the lagoon by the hundreds, this small beach was where they had the big machines they used to fry the whales and extract their blubber.

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