Tractors in the Waves and Old Boats on Dry Grass Along the Talebabad Coast
I went out to Talebabad village today because sitting at home all morning was driving me crazy. We've had rain almost every day this month here in Anzali, so when the sun finally came out around noon I just grabbed my phone and went for a walk by the sea. My battery was only at 50 percent and I didn't even plan on taking many pictures. Then I walked down to the sand and saw a bunch of local guys working by the water.
If you look at my first 2 photos, you can see their wooden boat and the long orange ropes on the beach. People here in the north of Iran call this way of fishing Parreh. Most places use electric winches or big boats to pull their nets out of the sea, but not here. First they take a heavy wooden boat out deep to drop their net in the water, and then 2 old farm tractors drive straight into the waves to pull those orange ropes back up the sand! Look at photo 3 where the tractor is right inside the salt water. How do those engines not rust out and die after a few days? My own car gets rusty just from parking near the beach, yet these guys drive their tractors straight into the sea for 3 hours every day and the engines still work fine.
And of course the birds were everywhere. In photo 4 there were probably 100 seagulls flying around above our heads the whole time. Those birds aren't dumb at all — whenever they hear the tractor engines start up, they all come over because they know a lot of small fish are going to fall out on the sand.
I stood there watching them for 20 minutes or so before walking further down the beach past that big iron anchor in photo 5. A little past that spot near the village river, I took my last photo of 2 old wooden boats sitting right in the middle of the green grass next to some houses. Tbh I don't even know how those 2 boats got all the way back there in the weeds with no water around them. Funny enough, just 2 days ago we were talking in a comment here about how the Caspian water level keeps going down every year. Have you guys ever seen tractors used for fishing in the sea like this where you live?
[//]:# (!worldmappin 37.46250 lat 49.56944 long Walking along Talebabad beach and watching the tractor fishermen by the Caspian Sea d3scr)