1978 - Fishing, Scuba Diving
Since moving to Indialantic in '76 I became good friends Craig, Paul and Eric
who all worked at
Harris.
The four of us did quite a bit of fishing together from the beach, jetties and a
trip to Bimini. When we went beach fishing I think we did more
drinking beer then fishing as I seldom caught
anything. Craig, Eric and I went on a three day fishing trip to Bimini in
the Bahamas, we were quite a motley looking crew. We left the from the
Pompano Beach aboard the Helen S. on a Friday for the trip over getting there early enough
to do a little fishing. We then fished all day Saturday and it early
afternoon Sunday. Friday and Saturday nights the boat put into port at Bimini and we had dinner at a restaurant and then stayed in a hotel on the
island. The picture right was at the hotel. On the way
over they took up a pot of money for the largest fish each day and the largest
fish of the whole trip. We all caught a few five to even 20 pounders but
non were winners. That was until the last day. We fished all morning
and into the early afternoon when the captain said to haul up our lines we were
heading home. Just at
time
I had a big strike. Everyone else had brought in their lines except for
me. I then fought the fish for about twenty minutes with the captain
moving the boat around so it didn't get caught under the boat. I finally
wore out the fish and brought it in to find it weighed
52 pounds to win the pot
for the day and for the trip.
Also that year Craig, Paul and I took a scuba diving course at Hatt's Diving Headquarters in Melbourne from the instructor Jim Bobb. We did a lot of diving together recording five dives in my dive log that year. The check out dive was in West Palm Beach which was a great place for a first dive. We also went down to the John Pennekamp park in Key Largo, some springs in central Florida and my brother David and I to Crystal River.
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