First Day in the Deep

Today we headed out past Sanibel Island for the aqua waters to try for something new and it was a day of observing the beauty of nature. It has been years since I've fished out in the Gulf and to be able to do that again was so cool. With the boat we had before, it would need to be a calm day just to fish the bridges, don't even think about going out into open waters because the wakes from the yachts and cigarette boats would just soak us. Not nowwww :-) This year we've got the tri-toon and we can have to best of both worlds. The water was gorgeous! We didn't catch anything to bring home this time, but I got to see one boat hook into a tarpon and it was awesome to watch that silver king come out of the water. I tried to get a shot of it, but they were too far for it to come out clear. We also saw a couple of huge rays leap out of the water. That's when you wish you had shutters on your eyes, lol! Just can't capture that quickly enough. After getting into the small sharks and changing spots several times, we headed over to try for some snapper at the bridge. We didn't have any luck there either, but were treated to the sight of a couple of duuuuuudes......loggerhead turtles. The second one surfaced close to the boat, looked over at me with that grin and then back down he went. Another eye shutter moment.