Tuesday, 5 August 2014

Day of awesomeness

Got up at 7am, had a shower, trying to knock the mini hang over I accrued from yesterday's festivities out of my system, it worked. Woke up Leah, we loaded the car and headed down to Kitsilano, picked up Oliver and Keri. Swung by a  donut/coffee shop to get some breakfast and some coffee, then to another coffee shop to get some coffee(it's a democracy, people like different things). An were off, drove through Vancouver, Burnaby, and Port Moody to the village of Belcarra to the belcarra picnic area.
We arrived there around 9:30am, set up our traps, loaded them up with the stinkiest chicken ever and threw them into the ocean. Started hauling in crabs every 15 minutes or so, was pretty good. None of them were legit size so back in the ocean they go. Around 11:00, the people started showing up, now I'm not sure but I think there is some sort of etiquette involved. Like, if someone already has traps down, don't just fucking tie on to the rock and chick your own on top of alrwqdy laid traps tangling lines and fucking with others traps.
Well let me tell you, Jesus Christ that was the case for he rest of the day. Not trying to be racist but one race in particular decided not to heed on the side of caution and just tie off and chuck. And everytime he reeled in, he got caught on your lines and fucked up our traps.
It was suppose to be non- stressful day on the ocean but that was ruined by this asshole and this stupid child who kept doing the same thing.
Oh well right, aparently angered  is you're reaction to someone else being a fuckhead... Serenity now...
About half way through the day we hauled out the barbecue and cooked up some hotdogs. We brought some snacks too and had a mini picnic.

There was a metro vancouver parks board conservation officer on deck for pretty much the whole day, very nice lady. We asked us for our licenses and we started whipping out our phones. She quickly stopped is and told is that we have to have paper copies on us and digital ones weren't really allowed yet cause you needs to sign the license. She let is off though cause we didn't know. And in our defence the internet where you buy the tidal license from doesn't say anything about having to print out and sign it. We participated in a study on which crabs were being caught and with that bait etc... 

We left around 3 or 4, I can't remember we packed it in. Ended up getting three legit sized crabs out of the 70 some odd we pulled in. It was getting to be too much, so many lines crossing, not catching anything. Done!
We hopped the car and headed back to Vancouver stopping in Port Moody at 7-11 and loading up on junk. Ended up at The Sushi Bar on burrard and 4th in kitslano. Best sushi in Vancouver... And cheap too.

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