Just went on a sailing trip to Catalina Island on a 35 foot catamaran with my Dad,
brother and his family and my husband. We had a great time and all the girls got
lots of reading done while the boys were trolling for fish on the way over there.
The fish story first . . . then an update on my reading, or lack there of.
On the way to Catalina, my brother threw out his line and trolled while we sailed across
to Catalina. He caught a couple Mackeral, but then he caught something a little stronger.
This fish had some fight to it. We were all wondering what it could be. Most of us thought
it was sea weed as we caught some VERY LARGE sea weed clumps on the way. As he is
reeling in this fish, we finally see the white underbelly of whatever it is and all of us get excited. We rush to the end of the boat where he is reeling as fast as he can.
About this time, the sea gets the better of my niece and she "chums" the water for us. She is on the back platform of the boat (Close to the water) tossing the Bear Claw she had for breakfast when all of a sudden she screams AND SO DOES MY BROTHER!!! The fish was about 5 feet from the boat at this time and by now we can tell that it is a shark, a small shark, but a shark nonetheless. I am looking through the lens of my camera trying to capture my brother's triumphant catch, so I don't see too much of what happens next. After the screaming, I dropped my camera from my face to see what was going on and saw the last bit of a huge, HUGE shark decend back into the depths of the open water. While my brother was reeling in a small Mako Shark (we figured this out later after consulting our fish book and the photos), a larger shark must have decided that he either wanted to eat the small Mako or he really liked Bear Claw Vomit, and came up to the surface to scare the crap out of everyone. I am not sure if the screaming did it or the boat or what, but he got within about 5 feet of breaking the surface and then took off. Just going off this shark's girth alone, he was probably a 10-12 footer. Needless to say, my sister-in-law was not to anxious to get in the water once we got to Catalina.
Okay, now for the book update:
I started reading The Lord of The Flies (even though I have definitely read it before. I read it, for some odd reason, while I was pregnant with my oldest son) at home and took it with me to finish up on the boat. It was slow going to say the least. I got to page 62 and then decided that I wanted to read some fluff. There was fluff on the boat. YIPEE!!!! So I read Nights of Rodanthe, because it is coming out as a movie really soon. It was about the same number of pages as The Lord of the Flies, but it just was dragging along. R-E-A-L-L-Y S-L-O-W! So I read the other one. It was good to read fluff. Does that make me a cheater? After I finished the fluff book, I did revert back to The Lord of the Flies and am now up to page 80! WOO HOO!!!
Once a cheater, always a cheater. I will cheat again. I promise you!
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