Life is continuing to be busy here in paradise! Yesterday we went out fishing again and it was a little rough out there. We did not get a fish, not even a bite! It was rough coming back in through the cut. I definitely prefer perfect smooth ocean water when I go fishing. That is pretty much never going to happen though.
We went to Mike and Linda's for dinner. Susan and Joe, Brian, and Pattie and Tom were there too. Boy, did we have a feast! Brian brought a lot of tuna that he caught in the morning. I brought a spinach salad and chips and dip. Susan brought a yummy salad. Pattie brought a special dip and veggees and Linda made enchiladas and rice and all kinds of good stuff. We had rum punch of two varieties and partied until late! The decision was made for all of us to go fishing in the early morning hours.
This morning we headed out extra early as it was a serious tournament to see who could catch the most fish or at least a Wahoo. We weren't out there very long and Richard got a Wahoo on the line. We were excited! He brought it almost all the way to the boat when it somehow bit off the line. What a bummer! He was putting a new lure on when I discovered Mike and Linda were stopped yet again in the water. We had noticed this several times and thought they had seaweed on their lines or something. I motored over near them while Richard was working and Mike made a distress signal. They were dead in the water!!!! The ocean had huge swells and waves and they had no power! We got as close as we could to them. We didn't have a long enough rope to tow them but they did. The problem was, it was not very big. Mike kept throwing it and I tried to catch it. Finally we succeeded and tied them to us. It was a rough tow but what we were really worried about was getting them through the cut! Talk about dangerous!! Brian was there with his boat waiting for us at the cut. We tried to time it just right with the waves and swells. We were midway through and the line snapped!! Horror!! We of course had to get out of the way and their boat headed to the left with waves and got hung up in the breakers! They were lurching severely! How they didn't tip over completely I don't know! The boat started to get full of water and we all were hollering at them to stay in the boat!
Suddenly, Christian, with SCC races on the scene with a skiff boat and is able to get close enough to toss them a rope and get them out of the breakers. He saved the day! People could have died in this situation. We are all very grateful with the outcome. We are all hoping the breakers didn't ruin the boat, of course. They did have a lot of luck to not get much damage! No one caught a fish!!!
Afterwards we all gathered at the Sunset Cove resort next door to our place and had a big breakfast and talk about how grateful we all are that everyone is ok. We will all learn from this adventure!
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