Fishin’ expedition
Tue Jun 21, 2005 08:46 (UTC -5)Here I am (still) in the Florida Keys, ladies and gentlemen. (Speaking of which… do any women/girls/babes go to this site? Seems like most of my readers are male.) Anyway, we haven’t really done much other than the standard relaxing (i.e., doing nothing). Most of our goings-out have been to fish, and yes, I went along too. On Sunday, for the first time in ages, I went fishing.
Now normally I detest fishing, but it’s a lot more fun when you catch things. (As a young lad I would fish on the dock at the family vacation spot. So many people fished there that our piscine friends got wise and evidently went anorexic to save themselves.) That said, I actually caught a few small fish. Now I don’t know my fish, so I can’t tell you what they were. I was told they were some variety of snapper. I do not know which. If I caught them more than once, they couldn’t have been that interesting.
Yesterday I went fishing again. We went out farther this time, and we didn’t catch as much. This was on the Atlantic side, which the house faces and has canal access to. So we went under a nearby bridge to the Bay of Florida side and started fishing there. Dark clouds were on the horizon, but I didn’t think much of them until it started to drizzle lightly. Otherwise it was hot and humid; standard Florida weather. This didn’t hinder our fishing much.
All of a sudden, a freezing wind blew. The temperature sank instantly. It started to rain a little harder, and the skies grew dark. So we packed up and left immediately. Of course, we had to go back under the bridge and far out enough on the Atlantic side that we could go in without running aground. I don’t think I’d ever gone so fast in a boat. We managed to make it back without being totally wet. Then I had a late lunch.
It seems like it’ll be the same today: more fishing. Maybe I won’t go this time. After all, chances are good that it’s going to rain every day until we leave on Saturday. It’s June in Florida, what else can you expect? All I can say is that it doesn’t hinder our eventual excursion to Key West. That’s what I’m really looking forward to.
Great Circle Mapper for showing the shortest distance between two points (usually airports). Pretty interesting.
1 comment
#1 by Tom: Wed Jun 22, 2005 07:09 (UTC -5)
Hey that place looks nice. We (me, my wife, 3 kids and a dog) are living with the in-laws as they finish building our house. I think I should have looked at renting your vacation spot as it would have been a whole lot more fun :)