Going Fishing

Cloudy and a little cooler this morning, but the clouds quickly gave way to blue skies.  Lyn settled down to some quilting after breakfast, and I did a little maintenance and then some work on the finances…. very depressing!

After lunch we headed out for a walk around one of the local sub-divisions, this time we chose the posher one! We racked up 1.9 miles today and the weight is still slowly going down for both of us.

Later on in the afternoon we headed out towards Brunswick for a trip on the “Lady Jane” a local shrimping boat that offers trips to the public. We went on this trip a few years ago and enjoyed it enough to go again.

The plan was to follow a channel out towards St Simons Island, on the way the boat would slow down and deploy its net. This would be repeated 3 times. When the catch was brought on board, one of the crew would explain what was in the catch.

Once the net was deployed, there was an immediate increase in the number of gulls and pelicans that started to follow us.

Bringing the catch in

The catch had a number of different species. Can’t remember what the one at the top is, but next down is a conch otherwise known as a whelk, and at the bottom is a tongue fish, also known here as a French sole

Southern Sting Ray

Below are two sides of a flounder. At birth the fish has an eye on either side of it’s head. As the flounder matures, the eye on the white side migrates through the head to join the other one. The two  eyes are visible on the dark fish.

A blue crab.

There were also silver trout, speckled trout, anchovies and toad fish.

Fish within a fish.

Just realised, we were on a shrimp boat, and there are no pictures of shrimp other than the out of focus ones in the picture above, sorry. At about the halfway point in the trip the crew boiled up some fresh shrimp that was caught on a trip earlier in the day, quite delicious!

With the catch laid out on a slab at the stern, it didn’t take too long for the braver of the pelicans to come aboard. A couple of kids were throwing some of the fish towards them and they were doing a fine job of catching them.

Waiting for food.

Thank-you!

On the way down the channel we caught sight of a mother dolphin and her calf. At the same spot on the way back the skipper stopped the boat, and after a few minutes mother and calf appeared and swam around for about 10 minutes. Unfortunately no pictures.

The Lady Jane