DANGEROUS DRIVING AND BIG TITTIES

I think it is the arvo session on that same day and the weather still hasn’t improved much, but at least the rain has stopped, I am up for a fish and Stenty, not impressed with the mornings’ effort, decides to have a casual afternoon.  

Can’t blame him, it is seriously the best and only place I have ever found, to just do nothing.  If you can’t relax here, you need help.  It is a great session and we catch heaps of fish, more red bass and some of these we even manage to release! 

The locals are getting spoilt anyway, they are all wondering how on earth we are catching all these Bass, when according to them, it’s not the right time.  We start to wonder if maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to teach John so much, but he only gets to use the gasoline when there are paying customers and he doesn’t have the right gear… until we leave him some at the end of the trip…   hmmm

The trip home is another classic John/Solomon’s tale.  It is now dark and pretty dam rough, we are heading home on some big seas, so big and choppy you can’t see more than 2 meters in front of the boat at any time, shows how well these boats are made.  

There are no lights on our boat and Lucas and I at the same time, obviously we had both been thinking about it for a while, look at each other and say ‘I wonder what would happen if there was another boat out here?’  

You wouldn’t believe it but not 5 seconds after we had said it, this other boat, complete with about 25 people on it and their luggage, goes past maybe 4 meters away!  We crack up laughing and look at John,  ‘you see that one coming John?’.    He replies ‘ya, ya,  no problem!’.  Bullshit!  Haha,  He even admits to it later that he had no idea it was there! 

 I reckon another 20 minutes have gone by since the other boat going past, when Lucas gives me a nudge ‘oi man, check out John’ he says.  I turn around and John is standing there turned around facing backwards, not even looking where we’re going and taking a leak out the back of the boat as we're hurtling along in this rough shit!!  

Unbelievable!  I mean on a flat ocean, during the day, yeah no worries.  But bloody hell, this is some gnarly weather, at night, no boat has any lights and he is still going flat out.  Legend!

He is such a funny bugger and is the inspirations for many a joke and catchphrase we came home with.  Trying to get a straight answer from him was like getting blood from a stone.  His usual answers to everything ; ‘ya’  ‘no’  ‘mmm   maybe’,  ‘not sure’ ,  ‘up to you’ , ‘err  Ya?!’.  It was classic, guess you had to be there. 

 One day he wants to take us for a trip up the river, so we ask him about chasing some Mangrove Jack again.   Me: ‘So John,  can we fish up this river?’   J: ‘err Ya?!’   ‘up to you’.  Me: ‘so we’re fishing there then?’.  J: ‘Ya, Ya’.  Me: ‘are there fish there?’   J: ‘mmm  maybe?!’  ‘Ya, I think so’.  Me: ‘is it good fishing up there?’  J: ‘err Ya?!’  ‘not sure’.   Me: ‘so are we going fishing then?’   J: ‘err  Ya?!’  ‘up to you’.   Me: ‘so are we likely to catch anything?’   J: ‘mmm maybe?!’  ‘not sure’.   Me: ‘so John, what you’re trying to say is, we can fish there but we’re gonna catch fuck all?!’   J:(big laugh and smile) ‘err  YA!’.  

  Unbelievable!  Why didn’t he just say that?!  Still makes us laugh.  With his funny voice and accent every time he would try and say ‘big GT’s’  it would sound like ‘big titties!’.  We would ask him what the plan was for the day, just to hear him say ‘ We’re chasing the big titties!’.  Always made us laugh, I guess when you haven’t had TV or internet for 3 weeks, it’s the little things that keep you amused.