Thread: The time is now

the time is now we were out at Cable bay on Wednesday spent 5 hours in the water (and on the a couple of beaches) swam out past the close in spots saw bugger all got into sum weed on the outside the water temp was off the scale and the vis was close to 30 feet

we stuffed around just being blown away by the fish life massive shoals of yellow eyed mullet & i mean massive tons of fish bloody great shoals of bait fish we swam past them all day. Huge fish (well for a mullet some were up to a foot long) one shoal wood be all 6 inch fish and then a shoal of foot long... fucking amazing

we found the weed beds and some very spooky moki then like fuck me this is one of the most picked over areas in Nelson I found a handful of paua ..bugger me the little bastards still exist in nelson town ...under size but hay they're out there.

So then i fucked up ... my mask was anoying the shit out me and i was feeling the pinch so I dragged my sorry arse up on to a gravel beach for a break blood (blake) swam in to see what was up.. I told him I needed a break and he said yip all good he would just go up and have a look round those rocks over there ..the next reef ..so i had a blow a pee and some calm down / relax time ..righto go find blood he'll be amongst these rocks ...round round round ..bugger no blood ..ok little shit (he's 19) must have seen the next reef and couldn't resist having a look round that "next corner"..swim swim ..no blood ...ok now I'm going ... ... .. I'm a dad and where is the little shit.. swim to the next reef fins off up on the rocks looking ..nothing .. ... ... ... .. yell ..yell ...yell ... ok this is getting real serious ...yell yell climb to the top of the rock ...fuck ...think think think....not a nice feeling at all it's being an hour and since I've seen him... shit...righto slow down..where was he last ..what turf was he diving ...shit he was going for the deep stuff the vis was great so we could see the deep holes. right to the edge of the vis ...(about now I realise how fucking big the ocean is looking for a head & snorkle)..think think we have have missed each other ...I'll just go over to the next reef and make sure he's not over there...nothing ...fuck fins /weight belt off up the hill ..climb climb sweat sweat ... yell... yell ...dad???? dad !!!!I hope you all never have to experince this feeling .relief love madness frustation happiness......me I sat down and a little cry...fuck me the large lump is on a rock looking for me.. you ok blood?? oh hell yeah come over and have a look at the size of this butter I've speared....he'd got a beauty 53cm's fat as mud .....we swam home saw some more cool shit a BIG moki with a hole thru em but he was still healthly az .. some juvi butters and knock me down with a feather blue cod ...in Cable Bay ..I've tanked this bay or over 20 years and we finally see blue cod not one but 8 all bloody small but shit they've arriv'ed

so we wandered our way home with the current behind us and blood by my side .. he dropped down to 30 ft just to show me he could and then I did the same just to show him that the old man is still in the game... bugger me I've got some work to do..

When we got back to the shore we had a de brief ..it went like this ..

where the fuck did ya go??

blood;you gave me the thumbs up ...so I hunted round those rocks

me: fuck me blake you were diving deep ..I was worried .

blake: na I was ok ..

me: FUCK..(calm down!!)

me: I was worrried about you.. shit blake you were getting some serious bottom time

blood ...yeah did you see that huge ray ...

me ...Hay next time I need a break can you come have one to??

blood: yip no worries dad ..I was worried about you to....

so we got back after we spent half an hour with an occy in the rocks cracking kina's for it watching it go shy and defensive to hard out hungry competing with the spotties for a fair share...

So the old man & the young Man learn't a few LESSON'S this week ....

Stick to fucking TOGETHER your dive buddy is you life line. If your alone and get into the shit they're looking for a body!!! period ... no get out of jail, no free chances...Yes I was F#*kING worried I would see a large lump on the bottom all the time I spent out on the edge looking for blake.

Get a dive Bouy...and a flag ...Amaturish mistake's I know ...where my buddy ..ahh over there easy as ...YIP I"M kicking myself..

We got home ... I learnt a shit load of lessons I truely ope Blake did to ...

Back to the good stuff ...the coast is going off SMALL crays in 5 feet of water ..vis in one bay can be nil drive down the coast 500 meter's and it's 20foot
the good crays are deep ..well that's 25ft plus for us..that said after 8 months and 10 trips and close to 70 hours in the water were getting sum spots sorted and now the Paua are just that paua...find a good patch go 10ft plus and your into the beauts.I've seen turf that is barren as no paua walk 100 meters and they're stacked on top of each other... the butters and moki they're getting educated every calm day so you have to work for em...

my tip of the month will be this ....don't pull you weight belt tight in against your gut.....get it low on your hips so you can proparly fill your diagharmge