Gone fishing

Friends are visiting this weekend and we made a small trip along the coastal road, an ancient road following the coastline with only meters to the water in places. We stopped to have a closer look at these old fishing huts, gathered on the beach with a sheltering cliff behind. 

The huts has been used for fishing since "ancient times", as it states on the information sign. Their main purpose has been as houses for storing equipment but has also served as a place to sleep overnight, especially on windy night when the nets have been in danger of being destroyed by wind and waves. Today was very windy and the biting cold found its through our clothes easily.  I can only imagine what it must have been like to sleep in these stone houses in wet, stiff clothes with a storm roaring outside.

The main image shows the capstan used for pulling the boats up on the shore. The fishermen caught mostly eel with fish traps fastened with ropes in the cliff behind the houses. The professional fishing here ended in the 1940s. 
The extras shows some of the houses, now renovated.