Wednesday, 20 June 2018

day #9 fish paradise

Miles are ticking away super easy here and the fishing is becoming a joke. We literally just throw our little soft pink plastic squid m on a hand line over and in less than an hour each time we have another Mahi Mahi, perfect fish and perfect size. Some are just 2 feeds, bigger are 3-4 so we only have to get one every day or couple of days. Have been eating grilled with herbs, fried in spices, curried in Thai coconut milk different ways, crumbed, sushimi, you name it twice a day, happy days!
A couple of days ago in the arvo I could see a fleet of fishing boats on the AIS. This gives us there course, speed, eta and info,about there boat. Anyway we had to sail through the middle of them and they were all doing less than half a knot? Big boats also, 50,55 and even one 74 metres. All Asian, maybe Korean, or Japanese I'm not sure but they were like small tanker ship style with massive freeboard to carry loads and wide, looked run down like old ghost ships. Then the closer we get they have like Davits all down the side and then through the binoculars I can see what looks like rows of lights up above all the way bow to stern. Sure enough just before the sun went down they switch on there lights, I've never seen anything like it, I'm not joking in the daylight you can't look at it for any amount of time as it burns your eyes like you're looking at the sun!! All LED, serious bloody Lumens!! So I think they must be jigging for squid, but they must be getting other things a
s well as there can't be that much money in squid and just the fuel alone to run these generators must be huge? And they're 8000nm+ away from home? They just sit here hanging off a sea anchor drifting slowly head into the wind, massive big boats. A couple that had AIS said there ETA was 30 th of November but it didn't say what port? Big swings away from home for sure and not the nicest of conditions I'm certain. Lots in the fleet were called LURONGYUNAYU and then a number at the end, one was 538 check it out on google maybe something comes up would be good to know? Anyway once it was dark for the whole night it was like looking at a city, hundreds of these boats in the distance and now last night we saw only 2 lights, really strange they are all together like that.
Another strange thing we saw, actually the strangest thing I have ever seen at sea was these bright orange like floating clumps, some the size of a fist or 2 and others smaller all shapes and together in an area about half the size of Sunflowers deck. There was a bit of a cloud of merky water around it like maybe it was shat out or regurgitated from a whale??! I really don't know, haven't seen any whales, did it come up from the sea floor 1000's of metres down and a volcano was going to pop up?? Anyway I yelled out to Julieta and she saw it so I'm not going mad but I really do want to google for myself and see what I can find!!
Anyway all is good, 2299nm to go, position 4*11.5s 101*52.0w
Here's another pic of a fish as I don't know what else to put up!!

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