The Port

The Port of Essaouira is a booming and active place.  A convergence of fishermen, boat builders, tourists, local people, restaurants, equipment, wood, cement, sea, noise, smells and birds.  

The types of vessels range from skiffs used by a single fisherman for in-shore fishing to larger trawlers.  The port seems to have few, if any, free spaces.  Boats line the water’s edge several deep and many are pulled ashore or lay in dry dock.  

On the wharves are fishermen selling their catch, builders repairing a boat or building a new one, people repairing nets, buyers, and tourists all weaving their way through the stalls and crowds and the puddles and fish guts on the concrete quay.