Moliceiro Boat
We collected moliço until the vessel was left in a “trough”, almost upside down with the water line, and we traveled across the lagoon, from north to south, to unload and sell it. As we navigate, we glimpse, on the banks, the comrades who work, like us, every day for their livelihood: there are many farmers and they all use molice to fertilize their lands.
We spent the night on the boat, inside the generous bow, which has space for the equipment needed for work and for us to sleep a few hours before the tide smiles at us.
When work stops, we take the opportunity to eat a stew, made on the boat itself, with the eels that come wrapped in the molice, when we pull it onto the boat.
The Moliceiro is also our means of transport, either to carry the cattle on one side to the other side of the bank, or to go to the biggest festival in the Ria de Aveiro, São Paio da Torreira.
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