We’re getting closer to the end of my first travel sketchbook!

We’re still in the Bahamas. 🙂

This was one of my favorite parts during our day trip to the island of Nassau. Instead of going on the cruise-organized events (which are overpriced, and full of dumbass tourists), we opted to rent a car and go explore for ourselves.

We came across some local shops/bars/eats underneath a large overpass across from the Atlantis resort.

The Harbor, looking out at the overpass.

Remember this?

Along with lots of yummy Bahamian beer (think Corona to the 10th power) there was also an obscene amount of conch shells everywhere. And I mean everywhere, piles of dirty conch shells sat in the harbor behind the small shops, and shopping carts were being lugged around by the locals.

media: micron pens

As it turns out, conch is a fairly common part of the Jamaican diet. Conch fritters, (sort of like fried hushpuppies with conch) were could be regularly bought in Florida.

Here, the Bahamians were happy to prepare it for you fresh…and raw. O.o

harvesting live conch…

Add a little salt and lemon, and take your bag of chopped fresh (and likely still wiggling) conch home to eat conch salad!

One of the many conch piles…

I never tried this. I’ll pass on the raw salty lemon snail muscle that was touched with salty raw lemon conch hands. Normally I love to try strange foods. But alas, hygiene prevails. I’m good. 🙂

Coming Soon! New tattoo. More travel Sketches. Artist Statement for the upcoming show. New paper collages.

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