We went out to the pier today to do a little fishing.
One of the first things we saw was this gator swimming in front of our pier.
Then this blue heron flew by.
It actually flew right over the gator.
Then the alligator disappeared under water. I think he started stalking the heron but it flew off before it became dinner.
Meanwhile David tossed the cast net and caught a bunch of shrimp.
Apparently the shrimp were really running. Every cast brought in dozens of keepers.
We caught this little guy in the net, too. Do you see his teeth? Good thing he's so tiny. Otherwise I'd be afraid he'd bite off a finger!
A neighbor used the sharp toothed fish as bait and caught something really big!
It was a huge sting ray! I only got part of him in the picture before he got off the line and swam away.
After about an hour and a half of fishing (shrimping really since we didn't bother with fishing poles) we came inside to wash and sort our bounty.
We sorted the shrimp in two categories: coconut keepers (aka shrimp big enough to grill) and bait.
Our coconut keepers are huge! Big as David's palm.
After sorting we had 8 bags for bait.
And 4 bags of keepers. I estimate we caught a total of 12-15 pounds of shrimp in our hour and half at the pier. What a great afternoon.
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