03.07.2010

With Matt home from Dunedin and the forecast good for Saturday we took the covers off Gazebo and hitched her on to the Prado Friday night. The frost in the morning was a good one, the hose was frozen so it took awhile to get the water running to clean the windscreens, we arrived at the ramp to find everyone else had the same idea. We headed out to the drop off to drift fish for Hapuka. On the the way we had the great pleasure it see 2 whales doing their thing, they were on the way north, we were not able to identify them but I suspect that they were Right Whales on their annual migration to warmer waters. SOAPBOX time, I can't understand the Japanese desire to hunt these magnificent mammals, it's such a pleasure to see them in the wild "ban all whaling forever" any way we reached BS1A and started our drifts, over a period of 3 hours we managed to catch 1 bluenose and a number of small sharks, not the best result but it was good to be back out on the sea and the joy of seeing the whales will last for years.