Return to Jolly
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Wed 20 May 2009 22:55
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Time to return to
Antigua
We left Low Bay, Barbuda at 08:00 and
had picked our way down the coast to put the sails up in open water by 09:20. As
I was attempting to switch the engine off, reel screamed into life.
  Result - nice
little Tuna - who took on my lure just for greed sake as he had a full stomach
   Very soon after I had cast the lure I
caught a reasonable sized barracuda, but, as we had supper lined up we let him
go. Meanwhile an exhausted racing / homing pigeon -
clearly suffering and trying to land on the sea, decided we looked friendly
enough and settled in for a doze, woke a bit quick as I reeled in my third catch
in fifty minutes.
 In all the kerfuffle of landing this
good looking beast, Pidge went straight back to sleep. I got
Bear to model my catch as I was in fits of giggles It's all skiddy and hard to hold when you are trying not to
disturb a tired passenger, can I suggest you hang up your lure for the rest of
today. With that I became redundant as a fisherman, all
over by 11:20. I felt I should be busy, so settled down with Skipper's tooth
brush and toothpaste to give my first barracudas jawbone a good cleaning. I don't really know what to say to
this. "Well you are the one who sacked me".
  Three dolphins
swam over to say hi - sorry Colin no
jumpers. A couple of container ships anchored off St
John's
  Skipper perusing
his kingdom. The entrance to Jolly Harbour has some nice
scenery.
 A whole swarm of
sea birds came to welcome us. Anchored about eighty feet from where we
were before, in to the marina tomorrow to get ready for Jump Jet arriving on the
23rd.
ALL IN ALL a cracking good
sail and not bad provision of supper, brought the cost
per fish down a tad, steady.
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