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2012

  • July 14-15, 2012 - Wanna see a $600 grouper?

    Seas:
    3-5'
    Winds:
    15-25 SE
    Viz:
    10-15
    Temp:
    86F

    This week I was hoping for something a little extra. At the start of this weekend I hadn't shot a grouper yet all summer and I was hoping I would get the first one in spite of the fact that the weather forecast was pretty horrible and I was only going to get to dive Saturday because we had to get back home early this weekend to make it in time for a friend's daughter's birthday. So with little time and an unfavorable forecast, I was going to see what I could make of it. When I woke up Saturday morning, I figured I would make the best of my early rising and top off the boat even though I probably wasn't even going to put it in this weekend as the bay boat was already in the water.

    After getting back from filling up the boat, I have issues parking the boat trailer in the field because of all the rain over the past few weeks. The field had turned into more of a monster truck rally arena than anything else and after giving up on parking the trailer where I needed to due to tire slippage, I proceed to get the truck stuck in about 12 inches of water, sod and mud. Luckily a campground neighbor with a 4 wheel drive van was able to strap up to the hitch on my truck and give me a pull out of this temporary swamp. A situation whose humor was not lost on the friends of this Gator (a Gator stuck in a swamp, come on...).

  • June 1-3, 2012 - A bunch of a whole lot of nothin'...

     

    Seas:
     2-3 feet (Sat)
     1-2 feet (Sun)
    Winds:
     10-15 S/SW (Sat)
     10 S-SE (Sun)
    Viz:
     10-15 feet (Sat)
     40-50 feet (Sun)
    Temp:
     82 F (Sat)
     82 F (Sun)

    I had been looking forward to this weekend for months. My first weekend of diving and spearfishing since last December. Unfortunately it started going a little awry about a week ago when my wife gave me the news that she and my daughter wouldn't be coming along due to some last minute sports team issues. I'm not sure, but it seems that organized sports aren't really very organized... Since it would be a father-son weekend, I decided to take the day off and pick him up from school and take off early for a little bonding time on the boat before everybody else got to the campground later that evening.

     

     It started out well enough. After loading up an entire car trailer with survival necessities (you know, golf cart, paddleboat, jet ski... just the bare essentials) that a friend would bring down for me that evening, we were on our way by 12:30p and in a couple of hours we were pulling in to the campground with boat in tow. This unfortunately is where things got grim.

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