Shark fishing and golf..!

Well what an amazing day we had shark fishing. The winter weather was perfect, 85 degrees F, (about 25 Celcius).

Chairs, coolers, food, bean bag toss and great company,(Miguel ,Ally, Jack and the Connors), let the fishing begin. We fished for whiting with 3 rods and had 1 set up for shark fishing. We managed to get 2 sharks for the day, a 4ft one first off that I got to reel in, then a 6ft bull shark jack had the pleasure of dragging in after a great fight. With both sharks we took plenty of photos and sent them back into the ocean on their merry way. The bait was paddled out by kayak for the sharks but in hind sight we didn’t go that far out, so kind of scary to think these creatures are that close. I took my turn at kayaking out, great job getting out and dropping off the bait but not to good coming back in, turned over by a 5ft wave (it was probably ½ a ft if I have to be really honest) and good bye new Oakley sunglasses !!!!!!!

While there fishing we could also still see ruminates of Hurricane Matthew, pine posts sticking out of the ground all along the beach where beach houses had had there stairs cases ripped away and skip bins all over with debris in them from things washing up on the shore line. We enjoyed a drink at “Beaches” before heading home, watching a magnificent sunset while there also.

The next day had the left handers v right handers in golf (Jack and David v Jackson and Ryan) at the Marshy Creek Country Club. We won’t go into detail but lets just say David didn’t win !!!!

It was nice to meet another of Jack’s friends Ryan. He didn’t know what to expect being paired up with the 11 year old. After Jackson tee’d off straight down the middle of the fairway, and could see that this kid could actually play - he was more than happy to have Jackson on his side!! So much so that 2 days later we were back at TopGolf again in Jacksonville – Left handers V’s Right handers. Ryan quickly taking Jackson to his team again, unfortunately for them it was second place.

Dinner was spent with Bill and Millie, Jack and us at Sunset Grill to say our final Goodbye’s to Saint Augustine after a magnificent 10 days. Jack’s dog Raidar – with our suitcases at the front door, he was very sad to see us go. Word has it he sat at the front door after we left for an hour crying, we will miss our morning walks with him. We hired a car, headed south and next stop was NASA at Cape Canaveral, on our way down to Fort Lauderdale.