ECUADOR | Friday, 11 January 2013 | Views [699] | View Smaller Image
Bolivar (Ecuador), a poor village surrounded by mangrove swamps, is far removed from the main cities. To get there you have to travel a muddy road far removed from the highway and then a narrow estuary that separates this little island from the mainland. Shell fishing is the main source of sustenance. Every day women and children go out to the mangrove swamps to shellfish, as they have been doing for decades.
