Tomato Diving at Il Tomatina 2006

September 8th, 2006 by Pia Taylor

Snorkelling at Tomatina 2006 - Photo by Anjaneya

Here’s one good way of dealing with 100,000 kilograms of tomato-muck: slap on some goggles and a snorkel!

That way, you can get experimental and do some tomato diving (not that you’ll see much), and though you won’t keep the mushy vegetables (fruit?) off your shoulders or out of your hair, you can at least keep them out of your eyes.

Some of the strangest images I’ve seen out of Il Tomatina (so far) are these ones, a set of photos of little (rather feisty-looking) toy girls standing in tomato swill. Upon further investigation, it turns out these same ‘girls’ are rather well travelled, having been everywhere from Phuket (Thailand) to Oahu (Hawaii)!

Related articles:

“Il Tomatina: The World’s Biggest Foodfight”:/blog/2006/07/19/il-tomatina-the-worlds-biggest-foodfight
Portrait of a Food Fight: Photos from Il Tomatina
Il Tomatina: The ‘Human Gazpacho’

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