Happy Birthday, Gale!
We had to wait around this morning to clear Customs. Yesterday there was so much rain that it caused mudslides over some of the primary roads making them impassable and some folks could not get to their jobs. No worries, we used our extra time to post blog updates.
With the paperwork done and our new crew member, Craig, aboard, we cast off the lines at 10:30 am and set out on a l-o-o-o-o-ong passage to Mexico.
When we’d been out about 2 hours, Gale put the fishing lines in to see if anything was biting. Within ten minutes the first fish hit! It was a good-sized bigeye yellow fin tuna! Before he was able to get that one cleaned, there was another hit! Craig reeled that one in – another tuna – not quite as large as the first. Both fish were filleted out and another one hit! Mark came down from the wheelhouse to bring it in while Diane stayed at the helm. It turned out to be a fabulous “tuna day.” We lost track of how many tuna were boated and filleted out, but there were no less than eight and upwards of a dozen. The only other thing biting towards evening were the bonitas which were released back to the sea. The guys were so tired by then, the lines were brought in for the day.
For Gale’s birthday, Maureen made a small white cake and a large pan of lasagna. Gale was unable to eat any of it because he was feeling queasy and food didn’t sound very good to him. In fact, he ended up going to bed just as we sat down for dinner. We weren’t sure if it was the seasickness patch or the tuna that was making him sick but all he wanted to do was lie down.
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