These were also taken before Xmas on a fishing trip that started before dawn. Eric, Chantelle and I went to Puketu Island to get stranded by the high tide. I wrote about it in a previous post. Note Chantelle's fishing stance!
We had to wait for about an hour for the tide to go out enough to get off. Even then the water went over my wellies. The pics show Chantelle and Eric walking back across the causeway.
We have done quite a lot of fishing this holiday. It is one of the major hobbies around here. Lots of people have boats and go out to catch a feed of snapper. I have tried fishing from the kayak using a handline, but it has not been very successful so far. We have also had a couple of goes at floundering, where you go out at night with a torch and spear flounder in shallow estuaries. I think that you need to have some local knowledge for this one, because we have not even seen any flounder on the 2 occasions that we have been out.
On a change of note - and just in case there are any readers out there who are not obsessed with fishing(?) - Happy New Year to you all. May 2010 be good for you in diverse ways.
We saw in the New Year at a small gathering of mostly teachers, sat out in a back yard with music playing in the garage. This is a pretty typical Kaitaia party. We had a bbq of course and the beers and wines flowed freely. The boys stayed up until midnight and Patrick and another young girl first footed us with charcoal for warmth, whisky for spirit, money for wealth and bread for food.
