Captains Log 04/03/07

Located in Normans Cay Exuma
Next few days we spent in the cays in exuma. It was great. Swimming, snorkeling, spearfishing and exploring. We ended up spending few days at Normans cay. There I would spear a nice grouper almost every afternoon. We got to see the sunken airplane, and some ruins, the remnants of Norman’s Cay’s notorious drug days. We had an exciting shark experience. One evening as I was cleaning the grouper, a large one, Crystal though she saw something large swimming in the water. The current was very fast at the time. So just to prove her wrong and that it was not a shark, I tied a strap through the mouth and out the gill of the large grouper head, and I let it float in the current. Net even a minute went by and three large blacktip sharks were circling the stern. Scary moment. The largest one was about 6 feet. Very aggressive but very cautious. After approaching the head for the 4th or 5th time it took one fast aggressive move and she ripped the strap out of my hands. I’ve never seen so much energy come from a fish. But I realized that sharks are still cautious, and afraid of us. From now on whenever we go snorkeling we will swim with the dinghy. This way if we do get surrounded by sharks, we can just hop in and drive away. I don’t think a shark will immediately attack. As I realized from this incident, it will circle around for quite a while before making any aggressive moves. This gives me enough time to get my ass into the dinghy. Anyway, the next day weather had opened up and it was time to head for Georgetown.