Friday, May 04, 2007

April in the Abacos

This is Steve, his friend Tommy from Tembo and I at the awesome swim-up bar in Boat Harbour. It was a really really cool pool. It had 2 bridges with basketball nets and at one end the swim-up bar. It was wierd because at the 2 basketball nets in was shallow so you could shoot the ball but in the middle it got deep. We had fun even though it was a little chilly.(not from the temperature of the pool but because the sun was going down)
Yes!!!! Finally!!! We finally caught a fish!!! This is our 27 inch 15 pound Mutton Snapper!! We caught him on the way to Great Sale Cay. He was our first(and only) ebible fish that we caught in the Bahamas. We did catch a 6 inch Bahama Runner and a 4 foot Baracuda but those don't really count. He was tasty! There happened to be a fishing contest that another boat started for all those boats heading for Great Sale Cay. We won second prize and got a "plaque" Bahama style (a paper plate) and a hair dying kit, a clown wig and a lobster pen.
This is the same fish as the one I was holding but Steve wanted his picture with it too. He didn't quite realize how heavy it was!!! We had fish for 2 nights. You should have heard them fighting about who got credit for catching the fish! It was pretty funny. We were trolling a line that was tied to the cleat so no one actually got full credit for it. Mom said that it was because of her that we caught it because she thought to put out the line. Steve said it was because of him because he did put out the line and Dad said it was because of him because he thought to check the line to see if there was a fish on it!
This is me up in the bosun's chair putting up the radar reflector that fell down. Sadly, I only got to go partway up, but it was still fun. Steve went up too but was glad to be able to keep both hands on the stays. It was really windy and if Steve let go then he would have blown away from the mast. I was okay with the wind but when the boat started to rock a little, I was a bit nervous.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Congratulations on the fish Hastens!!

I think Danielle, that I can buy your Mom's story or Steve's about getting credit for catching the fish, but your Dad? Was he even on the boat (no picture of Dad with the fish!)? He has been chasing the elusive great white fish for 45 years!
Anyway, it is nice to see you are all still having lots of fun and we will see you soon.

Love Uncle Jeff

11:07 a.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hello Mara's
This is Mark. I was the tired one on Main Duck (C&C27 Hanna B)
Great blog! It really helps us factory guys get a feel for your adventure!
Nice meeting yuall. If you come back around Picton ( Prince Edward County) Look us up. Were on Regardless at PEYC.

11:46 p.m.  

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