This is Living

Well this is what it's all about, why I even started dreaming about a boat in the first place. Fish and rice! Wake up in the morning and quickly discuss what jobs we want to do for the day. Big things such as transferring fuel, clean the oven, tidy workshop, pack something away and most importantly what fish we would like to catch and how we will cook it. Julie is the fish killer. I just drive the dingy while she has the lure in the water holding onto the rod. It gets quite exciting at times with screaming and yelling when there's a big one on the end and the line is spooling out, especially when there's a big mackerel or trevally fighting for its life. So quite a buzz but we do try and get the smaller, tastier fish also around the reefs like coral trout and these other fish I think is a green Jobfish (looking in the book? Very tasty  anyway) so as you can imagine it is a busy day. Sometimes we have even finished ALL our jobs by 11am and then without even thinking its time to celebrate with a beer, well you have to because it just doesn't feel right cooking a fish BBQ for lunch without a coldie in hand??

Then we have the other big dilemma, like where do we go next? 1250 islands all beautiful but some are too deep to anchor and others have resorts. Apparently some of the resort islands welcome you if you call in advance but we would rather be on our own deserted island or maybe with a few locals that invite us in to share a coconut. Is funny, they are living so simple off the land and from the sea and happy to welcome us in and show us their digs and then they want to take a photo of us! They have better phones than we do! Great friendly people and don't seem to have any hang ups from the western world, just happy out. For the West Australian folk reading this place is like the Abrholas islands only greener. The same deal with  loads of reefs and bombies, clear water and marine life everywhere, only a hell of a lot bigger with a lot less wind. Same same but different.

Probably when we get to the capital Male it will be different with 200000 living like sardines on a small island??

Now we are at Fadiffolu Atol anchored off an island called Difuri. There are 6 people living on here that are slowly building a resort for a Swiss fella. We had the grand tour and it looks like if they carry on at the same pace it might be built in another 20 years. Then there is another island to the NW that's a lot smaller were we went yesterday for a troll in the dingy. We were greeted by a young guy that didn't speak a word of English but wanted to give us a borumba?? So we went for a look and he picked a couple of coconuts and we met who I think was his brother. Just the 2 of them living on this little island very self sufficient, growing capsicums and even a dozen turkeys with this picture perfect turquoise bay and their little shack and a couple of outhouse sheds with stuff going on. Anyway we caught a giant trevally today and took that to them and they were very stoked!