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Today we went out in A and E's boat on Gulf waters to catch some much hoped for fish and generally do the messing around on the water thing.

A perfect day, blue sky and equally blue, glass smooth water and so clear, at first point of call we could see Angel Fish swimming around the barnacled rope of the anchor buoy.
With finger now hook free, junior (thankfully) caught a couple of fish which grunted and clacked (as one would with a hook in mouth) on landing. Reliably informed at dinner later that grunters are usually GTs, Giant Trevally, these two were tiny and returned to the water to potentially grow to 80kgs and 1.7 metres!

The Gulf offered up more surprises as the day and the sun rose high. A black tipped reef shark cruised by to check out our lunch time reef fishing exploits- at this point I reeled in the hand line-, tuna bubbled the surface briefly, dolphins eased through the boat wake and a fish eagle raced the boat before veering off to land, gripping a wriggling catch.

No fish on the menu tonight! Instead it's dinner with colleagues and friends of A and E's. Portugese chicken and tiramisu and icy conconctions created by J, rehearsing as cocktail maker for A's 30th next week.
Now that should be interesting.