yip!! if weather turns shit for diving we can climb hills. we can hunt in wind that would make diving unpleasent or damn near impossible.Quote:
Originally Posted by veitnamcam
Hell you may hate diving and prefer to wander the hills.
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yip!! if weather turns shit for diving we can climb hills. we can hunt in wind that would make diving unpleasent or damn near impossible.Quote:
Originally Posted by veitnamcam
Hell you may hate diving and prefer to wander the hills.
Hmm I have already been warned not once but twice to not"Bugger off and leave me looking after the kids all weekend"
Perhaps you guys bring yours and we will play it by ear ;)
Sat at kaikoura, review... took us 3 hours of free diving to secure our limit of crays... Dived only one spot for our limit, the problem being all our go to rocks were loaded up with undersize stuff (was great eye candy but no good for filling ya guts). We ended finding the keepers by themselves in amongst the weed, the females have dicthed their eggs and most of the bucks have shed, unfortunatley it seems the bigger bucks are still in the process of sheading). A week may well help.
Don't be put off by the colour of the Clarenece as the tides are taking the murk north away from the fishing grounds. Water temp is still at the refreshing temp but paua were at knee deep at low tide and the crays were from 1.5 meters to as deep as we could dive. You didn't have to go to the bottom as the crays were holding on the side of the rocks. Vis was very good saw Moki but no butters but differnt spots hold better numbers of butters.
All in all things are looking promising for the weekned cray and paua wise, will have to see what the weather does.
Who's coming ? Sounds like it's going to be good conditions pm me so I no how much white bait to bring ?
I won't eat much white bait a couple of kilos will do me :D
dive gear ... check
heaps more dive gear ... check
mincer ... check
salt pepper onion butter..... check
beer ... check
would you guys think I'm a soft cock if I pack a towel?
got a spare seat if anyone wants a lift.
edit .... leaving Nelson Friday morning so could pick up from Blenhiem or anywhere on the way.
Catch you guys down there i'll be the bald chubby fella with the camo green wet suit drying on the line about 430 - 5pm other wise if the the weather forecast is correct I will be in the tide.Tan nissan terrano most likely parked up with a grey ford ute.
Travel safe. Joe
See ya there.
Looking forward to it !
Have a good trip guys
I'd love to be there and was intending to be, but have about 3 months of stuff to do before the wedding and it's next weekend!!!!!
Don't drink anything I wouldn't drink :D
Like sea water:thumbdown::D
Depends if I'm diving LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by veitnamcam
Good luck guys, may the weather gods shine down on thee!
Thanks guys for a great weekend , and dinner last night doesn't get any better . if anyone has an offer or opportunity to get out with VC or Stingray do ! , they truly are good bastards ! .
Awesome weekend.
Cheers Stingray and Munsey.
Good barstards :thumbup::cool:
A fantastic weekend with some of life's true gentlemen,fathers and husbands.
Munsey , Cam a huge thanks for a epic weekend.
I will file a report later, but let say we did some miles swum some miles, yarned dived saw NZ at its best :cool::thumbsup:
Sounds like a great weekend, with better than top hotel grub:thumbsup:
Well here's a run down with out pic's sorry I'm not much of a photgrapher so fingers crossed Cam may post some.
It all started with a P.M from Munsey setting plans in place.. seemed like it took forever for the weekend arrive.
Thursday 7th .. finshed work late, played hockey home to pack ... pack, un-pack, check repack... pace, pace, roll over, roll over, sleep beep beep!!! yay
Friday 8th... A casual start and trip to the coast with a stop to visit family saw us catch up with the young folk at about 11am as they were finishing a swim at the spot we picked over last weekend. Same story this week heaps of small stuff not worth stirring up.So down the coast a bit saw us a spot we havent dived for 6 months. The young folk rock hopped about 200 yards north of our normal entry point while I geared up. I headed in and swam out to where the vis cleared and started hunting as Blake comes around the corner with a grin from ear to ear "got 4 beauts".. great!! now the presure was on the old man..up down up down (free diving)... small stuff again ... next thing ..."hey dad give us a hand" ... little shit was diving turf I swam past and had a cray in each bloody hand, "theyre just sitting in the weed dad" what are ya doing?? need glasses or something??.... mutter mutter.
So an hour later were on the hard taking stock of their mornings efforts 3 butters, a handful of paua and 9 crays... bout then the MAF (now relabled as Minstry of Primary Industries) pulls in for a yarn and a look (she was hard case, bloody good sort) shot the breeze with her for a bit then hunger pushed us south to Kaikoura for a feed and regroup.
Sorted the accomadation for Lis and I and caught up with the young folk (20th birthday weekend differnt accomadation) and headed down the coast. Having people coming to get amoungst it tommorrow we opted for a new spot. We found some blue water and made our way through the mob of seals and into the tide at low water shit it was still deep it took less than 5 mins for Curly to have his hand in the air with a keeper, well hell even I managed one then two ..bugger me a third, Blake peeled out a couple of butters and curly forgot about the crays and headed off for a hunt. That was me I left them to it it was 6pm I was nackered and was wanting a cold one.
We waited till the lads had finished sorted ourselves and made a sort of plan for Sat and then went out seperate ways.Got the pad cracked a beer looked around the park nup no camo wearing blokes to seen, so headed for a shower ran into a lady ( turns out to be Mrs Munsey I find out later) how ya going etc.. a hour later back at the pad Lis & I are dealing with a feed of fish & chips and a cold one when a bloke comes to the door... I meet Cam!
We wander over and I meet Munsey!! ( two fine looking gentlemen). They've being out setting cray pots so a plan for Saturday is hatched and after a yarn... Bed.
Saturday.. up Munsey and Cam are gone sorting the cray pots. So a coffie and wander around camp till the agreed time of 9am kick off.. trucks loaded kids gear etc and gone north up the coast through the sea mist to a spot that normaly is protected from swell. Arrive to find a meter swell rolling through but nothing to serious.. bit of a chin wag ,sort out, and were in the tide.
Munsey's off hunting butters, Cam heading for the wild blue younder, me trying to find crays, Lis floating around mask leeking and not feeling the best (it was like swimming in a washing machine near the rocks). Lis heads in and Cam yells out he's found the rock loaded with paua.. Beauty.. I head over to grab my catch sack and paua knives by the time I get to Cam he's amoungst the rocks getting a work out. Try as we might we can't get back on the paua and half an hour later we pull the pin. I arrive at the beach to find the team yarning to the Maf bloke was kind of hard to measure a empty catch sack eh.. Damn.. Maf bloke told us that the swell south was the same but the water was clearier so up camp and down the coast
11 am past the young folk minus a couple bodies apperantly the beer devil got'm the night before, they were prospecting some new turf, we had a quick yarn and I took the crew further down the coast. Back in the water minus Lis, out into the tide with better vis and onto the crays, tried to get Cam on to em but his ears were giving him grief, he could get down but not stay there. by the time I had mucked around the crays had gone back and with a swing and a miss I managed to scare em even futher back..
We dived the shit out of this spot got a hand full of paua and I eventualy snagged a cray, made the call to finish the day with getting a decent feed of paua but not before Cam and the kids gave a big old crab a tussel (good humor). South again in the water with the tide out we struggled with the bull kelp. Munsey got amongst em it took a bit of measuring but once he had his eye in he hooked out some beauts in waist deep water. That was it for us, time for home, back to camp we cleaned the paua and Cam and Munsey took the cray pots out for another soak, then they set about cooking up the hell feed crays , scallops , whitebait , venison we ate the tucker straight off the hot plate dusted in salt and down your neck. Fantastic!!!
Dusk became evening the kids were put to bed (no rocking required they had done some miles) the fire lit and chairs pulled up, yarns told beers washed down an amazing tea untill bodies worn thin by a day in the tide needed to find a soft pillow and a warm blanket to.
Sunday they arose to sea mist on the ground with dam near zero vis Cam and Munsey went out to collect the cray pots , they had to use the snail trial of the GPS and slowly make their way to the pots. They got home safe and sound with 3 crays one was a beaut. so smiles all round. Then came the eventual clean up , pack and good byes and next times!!
Lis drove me north back up the coast as I watched a calm and clear sea, we stopped for a break and I stood looking at the sea my mind willing me to get amongst it one more time and my body saying "I don't bloody think so". To be honest I was knackered, so we watched a bloke suit up and jump into the tide and 10 mins later wave a butterfish at me.. I had time enough to think what an amazing part of the contry we live in surrounded by warm welcoming shareing people. A huge thankyou to Cam, Munsey, Lis, wives and the kids.
Till next time!!
Sounds like a bloody good weekend! Nice write up Stinger :thumbsup:
Well written and keen to do again , and main thing was the mrs loved it too
Yea great weekend. Kids loved it and were well knackered:thumbup:
Wife even enjoyed herself.
Cheers guys.
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Cool picks VC did you see any baby seals in the pick of the water fall ?
Was only a couple up there, couldnt catch them in a pic phone to slow to take pic.
Kids enjoyed watching them.
Shit!
Was another 4 letter word I used when I seen itQuote:
Originally Posted by Gibo
Seen packies that big but shit!Quote:
Originally Posted by Munsey
Looks like a Kahurangi one, you can pick up those little ones off the beach with the spotlight:D
Was on Jody's fagbook , said it was west coast SI. Was thinking it would have been thereQuote:
Originally Posted by veitnamcam
Think I need to sort out some gear and get back into the water. Looks like a fantastic trip.
Kids have been asking when we are goin back:cool:
How's febuary sound?
Feb sounds good ,
Can't commit this far out but yep sounds good.:)
Well done lads, sounds like a great time all round. We are heading down on Thursday for a hunting/diving mission...
Looks and sounds like it was a great trip, was intending to head up but been off the radar for a while.... be keen on the next one!
how would first weekend in March suit everyone??
Long enough after xmas for the finances to recover from xmas, weather should be warm and hopefully settled. Crays will be all god no softies or eggs.
Family freindly worked great last time. I got some new spots and some old faithfuls. I can organise the accomadation.
All welcome.
Well if you were all to take 22,23 and 24th of April off then You could have 10 days off but only use 3 of your own leave, (assuming of course you are an employee not an owner of a business)
If i could afford it i would take all of April off!:DQuote:
Originally Posted by mikee
Put me down in pencil at this stage till i know what Im up to for the roar if anything.Quote:
Originally Posted by stingray
