Brian & Sheila day 2

In the morning Sheila, Tess, Jennifer and Noel went for a walk around the bay to the far side and again it was a lovely sunny day and then home for brunch. The walk was about 6 to 7 kilometres and got the system running.

We left about 11 ish to go out fishing on Brian & Sheila’s boat which is a wonderful almost 50 years old motor vessel about 37 feet long.

On the way out we stopped to take some photos of a brand new fishing boat, which apparently weighs over 100 tons, that had struck the rocks on its way back to port. It would appear that they had been out for three days and got a little tired and all fallen to sleep and forgot about the reef. They had to be rescued by helicopter, no serious injuries except an upset insurance company and a considerable loss of pride.

On the way we spotted some Dolphins who were either 100 yards away or had fun chasing each other under Brian’s boat. I tried taking some photos but I had to keep on changing the camera lenses and each time I had the wrong lens. I see why most professionals have two cameras.

We finally parked on our fishing spot and they started biting straight away, Sheila almost immediately caught a huge kingfish and just as it was going in to the net the line broke. Brian was upset for quite a while as this would have been a good catch. The fish were mostly taking the bait off the hooks and having a good lunch on us, Noel caught a couple of snapper but they were too small and had to be put back. Sheila then caught a really big snapper and Brian another slightly smaller fish the name of which I don’t remember. After an exhausting couple of hours we left with three fish which would easily feed eight or 9 people and headed to a small bay where Sheila and Jennifer went for a swim, but it was cold and they did not spend too much time in the water. Brian had seen a shark earlier chasing some fish and I reckon that’s why they did not spend much time swimming.

In the evening, Robin & Alison, friends of Brian and Sheila arrived to join us for dinner. Alison had worked at St Peter’s Hospital in Chertsey for a while and Robin had been a senior man in television but now retired. It was a great dinner of self caught fresh fish, it was about three hours since caught and you cannot do any better than this.

We were all a little tired and so we all retired early although Noel helped Sheila to set up her blog first. We look forward to reading it.