Mud Crab Fishing

Hello All,
Yesterday afternoon I went over to visit with a boat from Sitka Alaska. Chuck and Joan on a 32 foot Hans Christian named Tender Spirt. She came by the boat the other day and Invited me to visit so I finally made the time to do so. Chuck was born in Wrangell and Joan's Father was military so she has been over the state. Chuck is retired from the Alaska Railroad and commercial fished Southeast Alaska and Joan is a teacher. They spent the Cyclone season in the Marshall Islands last year and she got a job teaching school there. They said the place is very poor and didn't enjoy it all that much but it was an experience. We chatted for a few hours, It was really good to hear Alaska stories out here in Paradise.
They will spend a year in Fiji then work there way back up North. I am sure I will run into them here in Fiji at some point before I leave.
The guys were in town and came and picked me up, they had arranged a fishing trip with a local guy named Kim and a few of his buddies out the road about 10 miles to fish for mud crabs. They are not very big but if your lucky you can catch heaps and make a meal out of it. You fish for them in the dark and in a stream. We try ed for hours but had no luck but we caught enough reef fish for a meal so we went back to Kim's place and had a great dinner. He is Fijian Indian so it was pretty spicy for my taste but was still very good.
We got back to the boat at midnight, It was a good day had by all.
We will leave here tomorrow weather permitting and find some good places to go play in the water.
Thats all for now. Talk to you later.



PEACE