Tuesday, 05 June 2007

• DEEP SEA FISHING

   

    I went deep sea fishing this last Sunday. It was one hell of a time and the first time I have ever done anything like it. I woke up at 3 15am to drive out to Wainaie and we set sail at 05:30am At first we set out 20 miles out to catch some big fish. We had 7 rods on the trolling boat, but it was a very unlucky time for us. After 3 hours we decided to go further out, about 40-50 miles even further to a point called the Pinacle point off the west side of Oahu. Apparently some fish were caught there the day before. So after another 4 hours of trolling, and no luck, we decided to call it quits and head back to shore. 11 hours was one hell of a boat ride and a tiring journey. I can only imagine what it was like in the ancient days of sailing (especially without a motor on your boat) how long it would take to get from one place to another.

   

    

  

  Heading out from the shore with the sun just emerging beyond the mountains

  

  

  First glimpse of the sun appearing behind the mountains

  

  This new camera is awesome. To capture a picture like this while speeding at 12 knots and on bumpy waves, this was a great shot of a bird right on the ocean.

  

  Where the birds are, so are the fish

  

  Sunrise

  

  Beautiful

  
  

  On the way back to shore

  

  Looks like we had company, a formation of Chinook military helicopters, not sure where they came from but they were pretty close

  

  Testing the zoom lense on the camera

  

  My Hawaii

  

  The real Hawaii

  

  Pulling the boat off the docks

  

  Waianae boat club, what a relief to be back on land. I think I was sea sick by the end of 11 hours. We washed the boat and headed back home.

   

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