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1/15/2013

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See this guy?  He's known as a "fish hawk" aka osprey, and generally pretty good at catching fish.  He didn't get any either.  So we were feeling a bit better about only getting one nibble yesterday in two hours with our spinning rod & live shrimp bait...
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So as any self-respecting cruisers would do, we took the dinghy to a deserted beach ... with shells ... and wandered.  Out of nowhere a surf fisherman appeared, but he informed us that it wasn't us, that there just aren't any fish right now because of RED TIDE! 

WHAT!!???   SO we've been thinking we're never going to recover from whatever the respitory crap that caught us up north might be ... thinging we're having a setback etc., and now we find out it's RED TIDE!   That stuff is wicked, making our respiratory tracts feel ill even if we're not.  So much for the extra vitamins!  

And I think I'm glad we didn't catch a fish ... fish are dying everywhere around here, apparently from this red tide stuff.  I wonder if we would have died if we'd have caught a fish yesterday that had the red tide illness that makes the other fish die....   wow....   not a good enough internet connection to find out, but we won't be fishing anymore this week!  
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Carleen
1/27/2013 12:25:25 pm

Hi Jan and Dave. While we were in Rotonda we peeked in to the boat yard (it was closed at the time) and saw your boat on the hard. Lovely!
Got affected by Red Tide too at Englewood Beach. Bad. Everyone was coughing. Saw tons of dead fish and rays down in the mangroves at Placida whilst kayaking. Poor things. A guy was trying to net fish but not much living there sadly.
Marion at Grande Tours told us as we paddled by that it's an algae bloom. (Nice place to rent a kayak - we brought our own this time though)
Is this a consequence of run off from agricultural production like our algae blooms areup here in Ontario? Not sure. Nasty though.

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Carleen
1/27/2013 12:27:44 pm

I forgot to mention that the Red Tide affects the fish's respiratory system so they suffocate. Not a disease that would affect us if we were to eat one. Poor things. So many dead rays too...

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