Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Flying Fish
While in Catalina, I went on a boat tour to see fish flying.
The boat took us out at night somewhere far in the deep waters of Catalina Island-Scott would have loved this area for body dumping. Steven King could write a novel about this place.
Anyway,the motor of the boat scared the hell out of these fish and they jumped out of the water thinking we were a big predator, meanwhile the tour guide shone a huge search light in the water so we could see them jumping. There were thousands of these stinky little fish jumping out of the water. A pelican was following our boat, as he always did said the tour guide, he was looking for a free meal. What a vacation treat it was to see a fish fly directly into his mouth.
As the pelican wiped his fishy lips, we turned around just in time to see a couple of sea lions perched on a rock.
I looked around for the National Geographic photographer, oh yeah it was about 30 degrees in that boat.
