Andi flew in on Saturday, June 11, 2014. Next morning Atil came by to organize a fish spearing party, we took off around 45 minutes later. People in party: Atil, Troy, Scooter, Godfrey, his son Spencer (head boy at Mangrove Bush Primary), Andi, Chris and me. We launched at Turnbull, headed out around 2 miles from shore. Atil had all the reefs marked on his GPS. When they reached a reef the driver would stop the boat, all divers would jump in and search for fish and lobsters. Godfrey speared two lobsters right away. Amazing how they poke their heads into the holes to search, hoping they don't spot an eel instead of lobster. This stopping and diving went on for the next five hours. Atil and Godfrey brought in tons of great fish, snappers, hog fish and others. They speared so many The cooler lid wouldn't go down. We saw quite a few sharks which made us exit the water quickly. I considered it a victory just to get back into the boat with no assistance. The next morning everyone had aching arms from hauling themselves into the boat, must have gotten in and out over 20 times during the trip. Everything in the boat was soaked with water and blood from all the action. Atil passed out the fish when we got to shore, even though the rest of us didn't spear any! Nobody took a camera, why we only have photos taken at home before cleaning the fish. Chris started to fillet the fish, got halfway through with the first one and the electricity went out. Have to pick it up today.
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