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Sunday, 12th September
Sundowners on the foredeck of Imagine. We must be trend setters, because nine other boats have joined us at Hook Reef. But none of them will be eating fresh reef fish tonight.
Daybreak and Sally was the first in the water narrowly followed by Lydia. After breakfast we lowered the dinghy into the water and went to check out the surrounding bommies (Sally stayed aboard Imagine).
Lydia risked life and limb to catch our meal with her spear gun, leaving her as a tasty morsel for sharks keen to snaffle the catch (and her!!! ) So, here we are sitting on the foredeck, thinking of how to cook the ‘Fred (the fish) fillets’ drinking wine (G&T for Sally), and some unmentionable tea (but we can’t critcise her drink’s choice, Lydia caught supper). Andrew had taught the filleting skills, and then the knife sharpening skills, and how to bait the fishing line.
Great excitement as Sally caught something on the line, but it was Fred’s miniscule cousin, so back he went, to grow and tease other yachties. And now, the sun is well and truly down, we adjourn below to give Fred a fitting farewell.