In November of 1985 and January of 1986, I travelled to Honduras on assignment for the Asociación Hondureña de Ecología. They asked me to document a variety of environmental issues. Most of my original Kodachromes remained with AHE. I’d usually try to shoot a couple of frames of each subject so I got a few of the Kodachromes in the end … but my best pics remained in Honduras.
The Golfo de Fonseca is a body of water in the Pacific Ocean, which borders Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador. Its wetland ecosystem is dominated by mangroves … and that’s why I was there. Mangroves serve many important environmental functions and the AHE had some mangrove preservations programs.
We boated around the gulf for a day as I shot photos of the mangroves and various activities, like a man extracting firewood.
The only real memory I have of this trip is that we stopped at a shack for lunch and ate freshly caught fish. It was cooked over a fire and served whole. I so clearly remember how the boat pilot scarfed down the fish and sucked on the bones. I didn’t know how to eat a whole fish and daintly picked the bones away.
