The weather looked really good for an early morning fish today, so we got all set up and headed down to the beach with our two skis. As soon as we arrived we had a look at the surf, it didn't look too bad. How badly was I mistaken. The only concerning bit of surf was the shore break, although we got through that quite easily... we then entered the mid break where we waited to make our assault on the back line hoping that we judged it correctly. First wave broke over the top of me but I made it through. Second wave I launched over. Third wave "oh my F@$k!" was one of the biggest waves I've ever had to face, and I'm sure you can guess the outcome, I did the only thing I could do and that was paddle as hard as I could. That obviously was not enough as I went up the side of the wave I got toppled backwards and thumped all the way too the bottom losing my ski and paddle in the process. Luckily when I came too the surface my Ski and paddle were conveniently sitting next too me and not on shore "thank god haha". Anyways I managed to flip it right and paddle my way behind back line.
We got our lines set with Shad as bait (type of fish) and headed out to the barge which is a sunken ship off Umhlanga, roughly 1.5km out. As we were paddling we were trawling our bait. My friend Keegan then got a serious bite and started wrestling in what we thought was big game fish, but turned out too be this bloody Hammerhead Shark. Which turned out to be a real nightmare in getting the hook out anyways I made a video with Keegan's phone of our slight predicament. Pay no attention too my girlish scream and laugh, as I really thought I got a heart attack because of this Dolphin that surfaced right next too me.
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=500727641843
We cut the line so the shark was able to be released, unfortunately still with the hook in its mouth but that should not matter as its made with a mild steel and will eventually rust out over time.
14/11/2010 Road Cruising for Snakes
Was out with my brother and a friend tonight, doing a bit of road cruising. The weather seemed perfect at first, but seemed to go down hill as soon as we got to the areas we were planning to road cruise, the rain started pouring down. None the wiser we continued on driving for a couple of hours we got absolutely nothing, then finally at roughly 22:00pm we turned up our first snake unfortunately DOR (Dead on the road) Natal Black Snake Macrelaps microlepidotus . As a group we decided to call it a night as it was bucketing down, so myself and my brother dropped off our friend and headed home, on the way home I suggested we try one last road to cruise in Umhlanga, which was just down the road from where we lived. And thank goodness we did as soon as we hit the road I spotted a snake crossing and it was none other than a Natal Purple-Glossed Snake Amblyodipsas concolor. A rare find indeed and I have never heard of them being found there.
Anyways heres a pic showing the Natal Purple-glossed Snake we got.
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| Natal Purple-glossed Snake |
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