Wednesday - Day 11
Aug. 1st, 2007 11:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
senoritafishWow, there's only one more day of fishing after today. Friday will be spent steam back to San Diego, cleaning our cabins, the lab area, refueling and then back the Scripps Marine Facility.
I was in the final chapters of HP last night, but a circuit breaker kept blowing and the power outlets, including the one my bunk light was plugged into. It went out again right in the middle of a chapter; with a groan, I decided I'd better just go to sleep, since we had to be up early anyway. An hour or two later, the light came on in my face.
Up early this morning and baited - seemed darker this morning than it has been. Today we are west of San Nicolas Island and it's as calm as I've ever seen it out here - not that I've been here a whole lot, but anytime I have been it's always been rough and blowing. Another albatross alighted as we were setting and seemed to be floating out there all during the soak.
Finished HP this morning. Awwww! I knew it, I knew it! And that's all I'm sayin' fer now...
Just before hauling, I went out on the bow and could see some blows and splashes off in the distance near the horizon - some whales, but so far away impossible to tell what kind. They seemed to be stationary though; feeding, maybe? The haul attracted even more albatrosses. By the time we were done, there were six of them. A few people threw some baits to them, but there were enough gulls also around that the poor albatrossses were outmaneuvered for most of them - built for gliding, they're not quick enough to catch things falling out of the sky like the gulls are, and they're rather ponderous to take off. Still it's pretty neat to see that many of them in one place.
The wind picked up again for the second set - I don't think the sun ever came out completely, but at least the swell was down and we were able to haul fairly quickly because nothing was tangled; however, I picked a job that guaranteed some movement for warmth - de-baiting (probably the only kind of "de-baiting" I'm good at). Only about three blues (two tiny) and a small mako.
A few minutes ago, E. and I went out on the stern and watched the phosphorescence flash in the wake as the water churned, like tiny flashes of lightning, or underwater fireflies.
And I've spent the downtime today catching up typing, so I'm about to send off a few emails and then hit the hay.
I was in the final chapters of HP last night, but a circuit breaker kept blowing and the power outlets, including the one my bunk light was plugged into. It went out again right in the middle of a chapter; with a groan, I decided I'd better just go to sleep, since we had to be up early anyway. An hour or two later, the light came on in my face.
Up early this morning and baited - seemed darker this morning than it has been. Today we are west of San Nicolas Island and it's as calm as I've ever seen it out here - not that I've been here a whole lot, but anytime I have been it's always been rough and blowing. Another albatross alighted as we were setting and seemed to be floating out there all during the soak.
Finished HP this morning. Awwww! I knew it, I knew it! And that's all I'm sayin' fer now...
Just before hauling, I went out on the bow and could see some blows and splashes off in the distance near the horizon - some whales, but so far away impossible to tell what kind. They seemed to be stationary though; feeding, maybe? The haul attracted even more albatrosses. By the time we were done, there were six of them. A few people threw some baits to them, but there were enough gulls also around that the poor albatrossses were outmaneuvered for most of them - built for gliding, they're not quick enough to catch things falling out of the sky like the gulls are, and they're rather ponderous to take off. Still it's pretty neat to see that many of them in one place.
The wind picked up again for the second set - I don't think the sun ever came out completely, but at least the swell was down and we were able to haul fairly quickly because nothing was tangled; however, I picked a job that guaranteed some movement for warmth - de-baiting (probably the only kind of "de-baiting" I'm good at). Only about three blues (two tiny) and a small mako.
A few minutes ago, E. and I went out on the stern and watched the phosphorescence flash in the wake as the water churned, like tiny flashes of lightning, or underwater fireflies.
And I've spent the downtime today catching up typing, so I'm about to send off a few emails and then hit the hay.
Lat: | Long: | Mako | Blue | Pelagic Stingray | ||
| Morning set : | 816 | 33.295°N | 119.912°W | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Afternoon set : | 815 | 33.198°N | 119.755°W | 1 | 8 | 0 |
