I was up at 4 am this morning in anticipation of heading further south. I did however wait until 6 am to wake up the rest of the crew as it was still not light enough to see, but by 6:01 we had the anchor up and we were heading towards the cut at Little Harbour .

We made it through the cut without issue and while Amy turned us onto our course, I sat up front on the trampoline and listened to weather dude. Our little SSB receiver does not do well being near powered electronics as it tries to retrieve the wayward SSB molecules, hence I had to move as far away from the engines and navigation equipment as possible.

Ten minutes later the weather was over and I was back at the helm. Unfortunately, 10 minutes after that Amy announced that something was wrong and she was mega sick.

Amy has never been sea sick in the entire time we have been boating, so right away I knew something else was wrong. As it turns out something she ate last night pretty well must have been pure poison and so she spent the majority of the day hanging her head off the leeward side of the boat. Poor Amies....

Suffice it to say, I was pretty much left to my own devices for the 50 mile trip to Royal Island. I had three fish whackers running and after an hour I hooked up my first fish. It turned out to be a mega jumbo, 10 foot plus, Sailfish of death that made short work of my 300 yards of 80 pound mono-filament. Still, I got to see him jump and thrash for ten minutes or so before he ended the engagement with a quick flick of his head and that alone was worth the price of admission.

I re-rigged fish whacker number 3 and continued southward. Two hours later I had another strike and this time I was able to quickly apprehend a small 3 foot female Mahi. By this time the wind had built in and I was under full sail. I tossed her into the cooler to deal with later and continued fishing the last three hours to Royal Island. Right before we came back up on the banks, I scored another small female Mahi and a larger, 20 pound black fin Tuna all at the same time. It was a little busy for a few minutes, but eventually I go them both on board. Nice!!!!

It was standing room only in the cooler as I rounded up into Royal Island harbour and dropped the hook in 8 feet of water. After making sure the boat was secure, I spent the next hour cleaning fish. In the end I put 32 single meals worth of fish into the freezer and 4 more into the fridge for immediate consumption. To say it was a good fishing day would be an understatement.

Amy wasn't doing any better by sundown, so I left her in our bedroom with Mila weasel for comfort and I cooked a Tuna steak for dinner for me and the boy weasels. Afterwords, the three of us (me, Milo and Marley) shared a few 7 and 7's in the cockpit and then watched the sun go down before calling it a day.

It looks like we'll be here for at least 4 days before the weather comes around and allows us to head further south. Stay tuned, more to follow.