This was our last day in Cuba and it was a hot one, about 32 degrees with just a little bit of clouds. We were pretty happy to have the full day at the beach, we needed to leave the resort by 8pm so that gave us plenty of time to enjoy the sun. Around 4pm the sun starts to get lower and it’s starts getting better for photography so I took my camera and left for a walk to capture the waves and rocks about 10min away on the West side of the beach. I’ve tried to go as close as I could to capture the crashing waves without damaging my camera with salt water.
Waves crashing on rocks, Varadero
In some areas the rocks were all eroded, crabs hiding everywhere they’d think no one could see them. What’s amaze me when I walk on the shore is to see all the little objects, species, rock and wood that the see pushes back to shore. Some of those will just gets washed away back to sea, I spotted an old branch that must’ve at some point in time hooked to the bottom of the sea by some sort of white rock or coral.
My very last shot was taken while talking with Carlo who was from Santiago de Cuba, he spends months walking the beach trying to sell starfish and shells for a living while his family lives kilometers away, unfortunately we can’t bring those in Canada. He had two bambino and to my surprise I’ve found that Cuban never/rarely ask for money but instead they ask for clothing… not new clothing, old. If you ever go down in Cuba, bring clothes, sneakers, flip-flops etc… it’s expensive to buy a good pair of sneakers where around here we can pay 5-10$ a pair. In some area they earn about 10 pesos per month, in Varadero it’s 20 pesos. For them to buy a T-Shirt it can cost 12pesos, now imagine having to buy clothes for all your family with your only income of 10 pesos per month.
Rocky beach in Varadero
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