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Aug 28, 09 Comments Off
 Two Lantern Bass Today was so hot that I remembered our friend Dave once saying when he was here, “I can’t stop sweating”, boy was that ever true today! I tell you coming in from outside and being in air-co has to be just one of the greatest things ever!! I worked all day and raced home twice to check on the dogs, Aimee has only been gone a day and it’s killing me!!
I had one of the funniest things ever happen to me this evening at Saint Joris. After work I raced home fed the dogs drank my cup of coffee and off we went for an evening of fun at the ocean. My plan is on my work days (while Aimee is gone) to take the dogs somewhere super fun in the evenings and on my off days do my diving and biking. So this evening we drove to the far side of Saint Joris bay parked the car and off we went on a nice long hike along the waters edge looking for driftwood. Well the first beach I got to I found a life-like toy baby doll without a head laying in the sand. This is one of those baby dolls that the arms and legs move has the same skin color, same size as a real baby it just had no head. Well believe it or not I wanted to keep it as I have a friend who collects these, he is a photographer who is doing something really “creative” with them. The doll was filled with sand which came in thru a big hole where the head used to be attached and before hauling it home I wanted to see if I could get it out!! So I grabbed the baby and walked out a ways into deeper water and of course the dogs followed. I then proceeded to hold the baby underwater for a few seconds to let water inside and then I would hold it up high by the neck and shake it as hard as I could repeating the process over and over. The dogs were really curious about this and every time I put it in the water they tried to grab it and run off with it. I had my back to the shore and was again holding the baby high in the air by the neck shaking the water and sand out when out of nowhere we heard an ear piercing scream!! The scream was so loud it scared me to death causing me to drop the baby in the water! Turning around I saw a lady with her hand over her mouth almost in tears and her husband/boyfriend came charging at me into the water!! I kind of put my hands up ready to be attacked but he went right past me and went directly to the floating toy baby!!! Folks if you could have seen this guys face when he grabbed that toy doll, it was completely priceless! It was complete chaos, the dogs were running and barking at these two that surprised us, the guy had jumped into the water with his nice shorts and shoes and he killed his cell phone, Indi grabbed the doll from the guys hands and took off with it and I was trying to explain to the Dutch lady what I was doing with the doll!! They really thought I was drowning or killing a baby!! It is possible that I was making some strange noises while shaking the baby to get the dogs going a bit, you gotta have sound effects for such an occasion! After everyone calmed down she said they walked down and immediately saw me with the baby in the air shaking it and hearing some strange noises so what else were they supposed to think?? Too funny! We all laughed till it hurt, they took a bunch of photos of me and the doll and then we parted ways, that’s something that’s never happed to me before. I tell you when that lady let out that scream and to see a full grown adult male running at you into the water, it scared the tar out of me and the dogs just went nuts! I think that’s the first time anyone has ever snuck up on our dogs, if it wasn’t for the sound of the waves, the wind and me shaking the doll I am sure they would have heard them. So besides that little adventure we found some great driftwood tonight which I hauled home and some other fun beach treasures! We didn’t get home till really late and I now have two clean very tired dogs laying here crashed for the night.
You photo this evening is of two Lantern Bass together, something I have never seen before. These brightly colored fish can be found in shallow water areas with lots of rock rubble. I would have loved to spend more time with these two but I was out of air when I found them, isn’t that always the case!
It’s late I am off to bed, Aimee arrived safely but that’s all I have heard! See you tomorrow, Barry
28-8-2009
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