Author: doug

Voting

Voting in Uruguay: you take your credenciál into a school classroom where there are three election workers at a desk and a soldier with an automatic weapon looking at his cell phone. You put your card down in little taped rectangle (thank you COVEEEEED), pull down the obligatory face mask for ID, take an envelope and let them write down the number, go behind a screened-off area where you find tables full of ballots, find the one you want and seal it in the envelope, go back out, tear off the identifying part of the envelope and hand in, then get your proof of voting (which is obligatory for citizens).

How do you figure out who vote for, and what do these ballots with dozens of names mean? That’s for another day.

PS this guy didn’t win

A walk on the Playa Mansa

Long walk on the beach today. I see the storm drain feeds into the stairs to the beach. This could be interesting on a rainy day.

This life guard stand has a distinctly lived-in look. I didn’t investigate further.

Some boys were hanging out on top of El Águila, a local tourist attraction. I’d never seen anybody on top of it before.

The wind decided to censor someone’s message in the sand.

Erosion had taken out some trees.

Apparently a makeshift bridge for times when there’s more water?

Half-buried driftwood with dog prints leading toward the water.

Somewhat inexplicably, an orange on a vast stretch of empty beach. I threw it a couple times and the dog chased it, but didn’t want to pick it up. On the third throw, the orange broke in two when it hit the sand, and kept rolling.

A sign warns that this is the end of the lifeguard protection area. The lifeguard shack is at least a half kilometer away. Have to wonder how fast those guys can run?

Heading back towards town.