Garibaldi Adventures

Ok so like I told you in my last blog I have been spending quite a bit of time down on a small fishing boat in Garibaldi, Oregon. Well Garibaldi has a harbor bar which is recognized as probably the most dangerous bar on the West Coast, that’s right even worse than the Columbia Bar (Oh and as I found out last week a fantastic surf spot).

What this means is there have been quite a few times that we get to the boat in the morning and cannot go out. Now usually I then drive the 1.5hr back home to work on the house but today I decided to stay in town and check out the area.

There are a couple of Capes that I have been fishing off and I wanted to see if I could get out to them. As it turned out the two local Capes, Cape Meare, and Cape Lookout, are both state parks that have trails, so off I went.

The first Cape Meare, had a short 1 mile trail to the end with beautiful large Spruce trees and a fantastic view. The islands in the pictures are the ones I have been fishing around for the last couple of weeks.

After running out to Cape Meare, I headed off for Cape Lookout, a more strenuous up and down 6 mile trail. It was a nice run out to the end with the trail constantly staying along the ridge line.

Ok so that’s it for now, hope you are having a great time.

Love Shaun

p.s - thats a 60ft shrimp boat in the last picture, it was rather high!

Fishing and Teaching

Hi everyone, sorry it has been so long between blogs but I only have dial up now and it is pretty difficult to download photos with dial up.

So I have been working on a really fun boat for the last couple of weeks. It is a near shore rockfish boat, it can only catch about 1500lbs of rockfish a month and so he uses a basic fishing rod, yes that’s right he commercially fishes with a rod and reel. Oh I should mention 1500lb of live rockfish is worth about $7500, so not a bad way to make a living.
So what have I been doing on this boat, well fishing actually, I record what we catch but basically I sit there all day with a fishing rod in my hands. Not bad.

The other eventful thing I have been up to is substitute teaching at the local K-12 school and guess what my first class was? Think of the funniest thing I could teach, that’s right American History.

So that’s what’s happening at this end. I would love to hear what you are all up to. Well bye for now.