We spent the weekend anchored out at Cousteau Resort with John and Lisa on Orcinius.  What a fun weekend!

Up in the conning tower waiting for the big one to strike.

We started out trolling back and forth out by the reef trying to catch a fish for dinner.   After a couple hours it seemed like we were going to be out of luck, so we turned back to the anchorage and pulled in the lines.  Yipes!  Two lures were gone and one was ravaged by some savage teeth.  Looked like Tuna, so we decided to put new lures on and give it one more shot.  Just to make sure luck would be with us, we took some meat out of the freezer to thaw.  Sure enough, on the next run, we saw something make a run at one of the lures.  It didn’t hook up though so we turned around and tried again.  This time we saw it come zooming in and hit.  POW!  White water churning all around the lure.  Fish on!

We slowed a bit, brought in the other lines and when we brought this line in there was a twenty pound Wahoo on the line.  After processing – we had enough filets to fill the freezer, give some to one of the other boats in the anchorage, have dinner for the four of us and make a very large batch of ceviche (which was delicious with our evening Charisma).  And we were able to put the frozen meat back in the freezer before it thawed.  When we got anchored, I even had a chance to jump in with my new dive gear and do a test dive.  It all works very well.  A very successful day.

Ann shows off the catch.

The following day, after a delicious quiche whipped up by John, the four of us donned dive gear and went over and dove Split Rock.  It’s only about 30 feet, but was a good tune up for everyone for the real diving out on the smaller islands that we’ll encounter over the next five months.  Lots of fun, followed by a lazy day then back into Savusavu.

Scuba Ann.

A little post dive R&R.

Good fun.  Thanks John and Lisa for being such great hosts.