Look What I Found

October 3, 2014

In the afternoon of our first day at Ha’ano, s/v Iguana rolled in. Tim and Jack talked and I’m sure Tim told him all about his fish tale. Later, after Jack was finished diving on his anchor, he dinghied over to Exodus with a fish book, and he pointed to a photo of a red snapper and asked Tim if that was the fish he had shot. Sadly, Tim nodded his head, regretting that one that got away… but then Jack reaches down into his dinghy and pulls out a huge fish and asks Tim if he recognizes this one’s face. No way! It was the fish that Tim had shot in the face. Jack found it lying on the sea floor partially under a coral head. I guess the sharks didn’t notice it first. Anyway it was a nice big fish, enough for two meals, and of course we had Jack and Camille over for dinner as a finder’s fee.

And if Tim and Jack weren’t already spear fishing soul mates after diving together in Nei’afu, they certainly were now. We were so fortunate that Iguana showed up when they did, because we ended up buddy boating all the way down the Ha’apai group (and even on to New Zealand) and Tim and Jack would spear fish every day for hours, and their experiences were epic. Someday, Tim will have to write about them. From my perspective, Tim’s partnership with Jack really upped his spearfishing game and we dined quite nicely.