Making a New Start

My family and I flew out of South Africa on 11 Aug 2008 to make a fresh start in Australia. It was definitely not an easy decision to make. Having said that, I have left Johannesburg and now live in a small coastal town called Coffs Harbour in New South Wales only 200m from the Ocean. What an opportunity.

For anyone who was following my posts on www.squidoo.com/Underwater_Hunting, a glitch resulted in the site being erased. I am working on putting it all back together but including some new information.

My first boat dive was really poor. I did not even see any fish worth shooting at. The two guys diving with me did get some crays and perlemoen(abalone). In this neck of the woods perlemoen may still be taken. Remember when we could take perlemoen in good old South Africa?

The second boat dive was a little better. Still functioning like a South African diver i.e. shoot first ask questions later, I shot a good Silver Drummer, looks something like a Chub. The fish would have easily been a max weigher but around here the guys are spoiled for choice so only the choicest fish are targeted. The guys had a good laugh at my inexperience but the learning has started.

Since I am a very short distance from the beach, I take a walk every morning to check out the conditions. As soon as the sea cleared I did a quick swim to look for crays and was rewarded with a cray and a perlie. Not bad. Bag limit here is very meagre. Only allowed to take 2 crays and 2 perlies.