Deep Sea..err..not so good fishing

Well, the week end came and gone... and too put it simply, it was quite a wash out! It was pouring rain like the salt water of the sea needed some intense dilution or something... The two nights of wonderful and bountiful fishing we hoped for turned out to be nothing but stormy rain. We just could not stay outside the boat to man our fishing gears..All we could do was to hunker down, and try not to get sea sick by the high waves and strong wind.

we did catch some fish, although the total was quite embarrassing.. there were in total 10 of us fishing, and between us, we managed a total of less than 30 reasonably sized denizens of the depth. We ate a few of what we caught on board, and they were really good simply because they were so so fresh..

On the whole, the trip was not so good....

Deep Sea fishing!!!

The weekend for the long planned deep sea fishing is finally gonna be here..!!!!.

Early Friday morning (at 4AM!!), we will start our drive to Penang and by 11am, should be well on our way to some 80 nautical miles north west of Penang island. If all goes well, we should wet our lines by 4pm.

The group of fishing kakis have all prepared the new Banax Kaigen 500, an electric reel for some real life testing in waters up to some 250ft deep. The expectation and optimism is certainly high. Word has it that we will be at the right day, according to tide tables and moon phase; so, there is not many reasons left if we still do not get any fish this time round.

Fishes that will be targetted, (and hopefully landed) include the red snappers, ang chohs, tengiri, red emperor.

Oh, this will be a two nights, three days thingy... hopefully will not get too sea sick..!!

Will update with pictures next week..

Gurney Hotel Penang

Together with three other families, I took a few days off and went with the family to Penang island. The main objective was to eat as many variety of hawkers' fares as we possibly could.

Stayed at Gurney Hotel along Gurney Drive; pleasant enough hotel except apparently, they have full occupancy and could not afford to let us have even ONE extra pillow!! We stayed in a 2 rooms suite which was connected to another 2 rooms suite via a private door. So, the doors to the two apartments were perpetually opened wide with kids running back and forth.

We tried, supposedly, all the major shops where the happening food is found; but among the many stuff we had, I like th roast duck the best. The meat was tender, juicy and just the right taste. Yummy...

On the last evening, had some sea food at Bali Hai...the kids simply loved the fresh fish..

Macro Pictures

Purchased this little digital camera about a year ago, and one day decided to see what kind of macro pictures can be taken with it. So, walked around the garden with the younger girl and took pictures of whatever that caught our fancy.

Here are some of the pictures: