Day 310, Year 5 One Fish, Two Fish, Big Fish, Little Fish
Date: Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Weather: Partly Cloudy, Clearing in the Afternoon
Location: Nosy Sakatia, NW Madagascar
At 6:15 am Mark, Ed from Constance, and Nick from Muneera left on Dream Catcher with Barry and his two eldest sons, Michael and Bradley for a day of fishing. While the fishermen were out and about, Tina and her daughter Candice and son Devon of Dream Catcher, and Andrea and her daughters Millie and Ella of Muneera hung out on the beach. I spent the four morning hours writing long overdue emails, and when I put them on a memory stick and put that in Mark’s computer to send them, they somehow lost their formatting and became digital gibberish. I do this every day and just can’t figure out how this could have happened. I could have cried, but instead I went to the beach and joined the crew there and just enjoyed the afternoon.
Mid-afternoon the fishermen returned with one huge Trevally, two big Spanish Mackerels. They caught a few small fish, and one huge Sailfin (like a Marlin) that was so big that it got away after making a show by skipping over the water on it’s tail. The fishermen also saw at least seven whales, three pairs and a single. So it was a good day out on the water.
We went to Pioneer to have dinner with Bruce, Nadine, and their seven year-old daughter Tristen. Bruce put some of the fish from the marathon fishing event on the grill and we ate and made plans for our trip north in the next couple of days. Tomorrow we will either stay here and prepare to leave on Friday or Saturday or we will head to Hell-ville in the boat to have the computer scanned for problems one more time and then we will head north. In either case, we should be in Nosy Mitsio by Saturday or Sunday.
