Mike's First Ever Halibut!
Always "Welcome"
Neighbour Coming Home after Fishing
Dave & Penny going uphill in Broughton Lagoon tidal Rapids
Pacific Whiteside Dolphins do not disappoint!
Acrobatics at its finest
Hoopla
Happy to see us
A 4 day enjoyable stay with the Browns and the "Bead Lady", Carol. All the boys went out fishing and Gordie took Lorne out. As you may have read in past posts, Mike has never caught a Halibut. This 4 day stay was to change all of that! Now we need Lorne's harpoon gun to deflate his ego!
The first day out fishing yielded 2 halibut for the Gordie boat and 2 halibut for the Bob boat. Mike is still at halibut 1, Mikey zero! The second day of fishing yielded a 45 lb. halibut for Mike and a smaller halibut around 15 lb., a broken fishing rod for Bob and zero halibut for the Gordie boat. For those of you who know Mike, he came back a 6' smile and talking a mile a minute! Thank you Bob for enduring your pain in silence, it can't be easy being with Mike on this momentus occasion!
Lorne and Shawn break out the deep fryers, potatoes and fish batter and voila - a Fish Fry is in the works for dinner!
On the second night there, we are having dinner on Oceanaire and Brenda takes a stroll to her boat for a coffee and enroute falls right down Dave's open hatch. The foot is painfully swollen and the other leg has a large bleeding gash. Brenda and Pat go to town with Robbie the next day and it is discovered that Brenda has torn all the ligaments in her foot and has had to have a tetnus shot for the gash and antibiotics for the infection in her leg. It pays to have these things looked at! Through all of this, Brenda has continued to stay a non-smoker and has been a real trooper!
Speaking of smoking, I am down to 1-3 cigs a day and the champix appears to be working. Will let you know when I make the 7 day "no smoking" milestone.
We leave to head out to meet up with Oceanaire in Thompson Sound. It's always sad to leave and we hope to come back in the spring for amonth or so.
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