If you haven´t seen the show called "World's Dirtiest Jobs" it is because you are probably not a guy. It is definitely a "guy" show. Anyway Lake Titicaca has lots and lots of algae growing on top of the shallow waters around all the boats and by the hotels. Definitely turns off any thought of taking a dip. That late afternoon when arriving at the port, we saw a dump truck and a shovel type of machine trying to pick the nasty algae up. There was a guy on the top of the truck shoveling in the "misses". It appeared that sometime the big shovel guy would "miss" on purpose and hit the shoveler with lots of the slimy green stuff on his pants and boots. yuck. We found out later that they use it as fertilizer.
