We were talking with a guy on a beach. He was pretty hard to understand but we were happy to be talking in Portuguese so we hung in there. As we walked toward the trail, he pointed to the sea and said something about "hedgies" I heard rede which is the Portuguese word for hammock, or net, but saw nothing that resembled a rede and it didn't make sense. Carol who understands better than I do heard "heads" and we started looking for the "heads" in the water where he was pointing. Soon we saw them. We got really excited. There in the waves, was a whole row of heads. But of what? The guy was saying something about fish, I guessed turtles, Carol asked about penguins. The guy repeated himself a few times using a lot of words that we didn't understand before he quit trying and walked away. As he walked off, we realized that he was indeed saying rede and what we were seeing was the edge of a fishing net going out into the sea. It's funny how you hear what you want to hear and see what you want to see. I appreciate the guy for trying and am a little embarrassed that we are, at times, so bad at this.
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