Day Five

Woke up at 5am this morning. We went out fishing with a guy named Henrik, he owns a fishing boat here on the island – its a very small fishing boat, in fact it is made out of mahogany, and has been around for almost 100 years. Went out, caught some small tuna and used it as live bait. We then proceeded to catch two large barracuda, about 20 pounds for both of them. What a fight, my arm has never been so tired from fighting a fish. After we had caught the two barracuda (there was only me and Jaime on the boat with the captain) we didn’t catch much else, a small tuna which we used as live bait but didn’t catch anything with – we headed in. We kept the last Tuna, and the two Barracuda. Captain Henrik gave us a good fillet of the Tuna and a good filet of the Barricuda to cook ourselves. We were planning on cooking it today, but we never ended up doing so. The day turns pretty tiring when you wake up at 5am. 

I went snorkelling in the afternoon, and managed to see tons of lobsters, some crabs, lots of fish and the SEAHORSE. A very rare thing to see, but i managed to run right into it without even really looking. After that I went back to the room, then to sundowners for a beer to see if the girls from Calgary had made it. Didn’t see them, so i left after a beer and went to my room and had a nap on the hammock. That was the second nap on the hammock today. The first one was after my neighbors left the island, and I had gotten new neighbors. The new neightbors woke me up when they came up the stairs.  A nice older couple from Illinois. I gave them some advice on the hotel and island and then they went on their way for dinner. 

I then took a quick shower and headed back to Sundowners to see if anyone was there. I saw Jamie my dive buddy, and we hung out on the beach with a couple of local white girls for a little while. We then went up to the bar and saw our buddy Kevin who had payed for most of of tab a couple nights before – turns out it was his birthday today. We bought him a couple drinks, and then went down to all you can eat fish taco night – I had 9 Taco’s (good lord).  

Then we went across the street for some live music, meanwhile we continued drinking and was fairly intoxicated at the time, but I wouldn’t tell our server that (she is also my dive instructor). Watched some live music, and then I lost Kevin and Jamie. A local guy came up to me – he originally was trying to sell me some “stuff” – I told him It wasn’t going to happen and then proceeded to question him about his life and his business of selling this stuff – As a business banker I tend to be very interested in how people make their money and what their business is all about. As he told me about it – He continued to try to sell something to me, and i continued to tell him it wasn’t going to happen. He was about half my size, and I was in a bar with many many Canadians, so I wasn’t too concerned about safety. He was actually a nice guy, told me about his life quite a bit. Honesty is the best policy – I didn’t lead him on, I told him exactly what i was thinking, that I wasn’t going to buy anything from him – and we had a good conversation after. 

I then started walking home to bed. It was a long day, and I probably didn’t write very well about it – but what can you do, I’m on vacation and I’ve had a few Salva Vida’s (local beer). Plan on going on a dive at 9am and 11am tomorrow – am supposed to meet up with some people from Calgary who just got in after that. Good night!!!