Fishing off Stephenson's Island

Fishing in the zone

Anchored by Stevenson's Island I could see one of our party, in the yellow tender, fishing for the elusive marlin. "Oh he's OK, he's fishing 'in the zone'' they said. A nautical expression that had something to do with his happy smile and bottle of beer.  The Monarch butterflies all fly through here from South America, landing on Stevenson's Island and  Butterfly Beach (pictured behind the yellow boat). I fed the shoal of large pink and blue Mau Mau fish from one side of the boat to keep them off the baited lines on the other side of the boat; squealing with pleasure when the cobalt blue fish came up to the surface to feed from my line.

4 comments:

Joan Sandford-Cook said...

Sounds like you are having real fun. .. and creating quite a collection of sketches already.

Sandra Rowney said...

Oh dear, I paid dearly for all that fun on the boat! The light is fabulous for painting but it scorches the skin. Spent yesterday indoors recovering and went outside in the late afternoon into the orange orchard to paint instead.

Jenny Unsworth said...

I am so looking forward to seeingyour sketchbook. It all looks fabulous.

Sandra Rowney said...

Jenny, I'm more scared of losing my sketchbook than losing my airline tickets!