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AJAYA'S CRUISE
Phil & Nikki Hoskins
Mon 16 Mar 2009 14:03
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All ok onboard - little wind, sea calm,
surrounded by shoal of Amberjacks which seemed to be sheltering under the hulls
- we caught one to see what it actually was. It took a lot of restraint to
quell Phil's 'hunter-gatherer' instincts to keep it for food, but
as we already have another 2 meals of fresh tuna in the fridge it seemed
the right thing to return it unharmed to the sea. Hopefully the fish will
obligingly stay with us until we need actually one, but we get the feeling that
nature doesn't quite work that way. Phil nevertheless spent some time with a
hookless lure to see how the Amberjacks attacked it without actually hooking one
- fascinating! With the sea so calm a window opened into the daily life (and
death) struggles that go on mostly unseen in the ocean when the water is
broken by waves, dolphins herding shoals of fish into baitballs, the birds
pitching in to get their share of the action. We spent time enjoying the
spectacle around us until a breeze came up and the sea covered up many of its
secrets from us once more.
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