On the northern coast of Peru, the fishermen still use “little horses” to play in the surf. It’s harder than it looks…

These graceful boats – made of tortora reeds, were around long before the Inca came to be. They’re so ideally suited to Peru’s rugged northern surf that their design has remained virtually unchanged in several hundred years. Though used by fishermen up and down the coast, their home is still here, in Huanchaco.

Buso is the patriarch of the beach – the man who has the last word in everything from the weather -- to who is strong enough to carry a boat.

Buso started his career at the age of four – a good thing, since he now had over thirty mouths to feed – ten children, with the next generation well on the way.

Each fisherman must grow enough tortora reed to make five boats a year. A caballito lasts less than three months in the pounding surf.

Buso is illiterate. His teachers once urged him to stay in school and become a professional – a lawyer, or a doctor. "But I am already a master fisherman," he said. "I have studied the sea and I understand her ways."

“This is where I belong.”

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