Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure
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@Giles I've always wanted to add the anchor feature to my Minn-kota, but the price is basically what my boat is worth. That makes it so easy to work the lily pads when I want to cover many parts of a small area without simply cruising by. It doesn't help that I dropped my trolling motor off the side of my boat a couple years ago on concrete (while driving, long story) and broke the skeg off it. Casting with efficiency and trolling a shoreline, especially in any kind of windy condition is an artform.
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Whoops.......Yes, I think I will use anchor and jog features a lot when keeping abreast of shoals of static sometimes/moving sometimes shoals of Bass. The other thing I like is that I can use gestures on the remote control. I just point it to where I want the boat to go press a button, and off she goes....
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We are staying just outside A Pobra do Caramiñal. We popped into town to buy supplies and get ourselves fed. In the Supermercado I was trying to choose a beer to take home, when I was whacked around the ankle by a hard white ball, I was a little irritated until I saw that the ball was attached to a stick which was attached to a blind person. In fact there were 2 blind adults and 3 normal sighted kids, who I later found out ranged from 8 months to 5 years old. Dad and mum were talking English with an American accent and after listening for a minute or so, I realised they were trying to find non-scented bio-degradeable wipes. I offered to help which was accepted. We bumped into them outside the shop and found out that they were heading for the same Italian restaurant as us, so we walked and talked.
They are from Ohio and the adults are basically completely blind and are on a longish vacation, they had spent a month in London, are spending a month in A Pobra do Caramiñal and then a few weeks in Yorkshire. This is their 5th trip to Europe and consider it to be a large part of their kids education. The 2 oldest kids had leads on, bells on their harnesses and around their ankles and air tags attached to the harness too. I suggested tattooing QR codes to their foreheads which they thought was a great idea :-).
Seeing how they moved around, just got shit done, laughed about everything, left me and Paula utterly humbled. Billy, the dad, had taught himself Spanish before they came (like you do) We had dinner together and I was in awe.
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Bumped into the blind family again tonight. Not that the parents would have seen them, but Will, the oldest boy proudly told me that they had seen a dead fish and a dead crab. The kids want to go swimming in the sea, not sure how that works safely.......
I got pimped by Will....
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Got to the Islands, which was epic. Took 3 hours to averaged about 30kph, topping out at about 55kph. Took one very large wave, which slammed the 3 of our back in our seats, the volume of water that came onto the boat was unreal. But the boat took it in its stead.
Yesterday we had Mahi Mahi, Giant Trevally, Black Tip Trevally, Bonito and Queenfish. Szymon got best fish honours with this nice GT of about 30-40kg...
"OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011
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@Giles oh my !
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@Giles Ho Lee Scheiße
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@jordanscollected said in Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure:
@Giles Great catch Szymon! Does your fishing trip support locals like trips past, or is this just sport fishing?
Have you gotten to/had to fish off shore too or has the weather allowed you to use the boat?
Not in the same way as Morocco, but Omanis don't really work, at least not in menial jobs (which includes hospitality, guiding etc etc), but we are helping give lots of people from Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, Tunisia etc paiod employment.
Not fished from the shore yet, out on the boat. The wind gets up as the week progresses, so may get some shore time in.
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Today. Too many Mahi Mahi and Bonito to count (I had a 12 pound Bonito), and a few Queenies, all on light tackle. Mahi Mahi for dinner.
Raised 12 GT's on one drift, but they were coming up short, so made contact with none
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@Giles do you guys drift socks to slow down or is it better to just roll with the waves?
