Last day of Work

Today is my last day at work for almost a month !!!!

Its like break up day at school, you are amped and excited, but the drudgery of the last few hours is almost unbearable.

Any way you probably want to know what the sea is doing?? Well its gone green!!! Yep green, I took my lighty for a dive thinking it was going to be brilliant and it was murky muck. A mate dived Xmas and said it was 2 meters on the bottom in 10m of water.

Strange that the south winds have brought bad water, normally its the easts that turn it to poo.

Any way on the brighter side, this time next week I will be in Mozambique a couple cuta richer. :-)

Coatesman

New Spearguns & a New Season

I have recently acquired some new spear guns from Rob Allen for our up coming Mozambique spearfishing trip. Nothing to out of the ordinary, but i have been keen to get them in a pool and just check that they are 100%. I think it is more for my confidence than anything else. I also dont want to get to Mozambique and jump into the water with a gun that I have never shot with before ...... to nerve racking.

Any way the sea made a small turn for the better yesterday and 'all of a sardine' I was juggling my last few appointments for the day .... actually it was quiet at work :-) but juggling sounds busy!!
And hooked up with a mate of mine for a quicky at a spot I like at a certain time of the day. I was about to take my trusty old Rob Allen 1.3m ...absolutely cant miss with it! When I thought ...'premo' opportunity to test one of the new spear guns.
I grabbed the new 1.3m caranx, everything 100% stock off the shelf. I normally shorten the rubbers slightly and use a slightly longer spear, but there was no time so took it as is and went diving.

The long and short is that I got 2 good size cuta hitting the spine on both fish!! On the bigger one the shot was a little further away and the spear only just pierced the other side. So I will be shortening the rubbers a little. But I have to say that the gun is 100s and I will probably not change the spear either.

Now were amped, so we get up super early and hit Tiffs before that Durban crowds hit the place. I decided to try the Rob Allen 1.3m Tuna this time. And again 2 good size cuta, not as big as yesterday but between 8 & 9 kg .... nothing wrong. And again I spined the one and the other was a perfect shot. I am tempted to shorten the rubbers ... but i know it is very easy to over power these guns, so i might just leave it for now.

Any way loads of fun and with the west due tomorrow maybe some more good water.

Cheers

Coatesaman

Earth Touch & Ponta Malongane in Southern Mozambique.

Ponta Malongane in Southern Mozambique is one heck of a place to dive during the early summer, a mate of mine is up there at the moment filming some footage for Earth Touch.

Check out the clips of some of the shark action. if you register and log in you will also get the commentary with the clip.

Masters of the Sneak

Crowd of Zambezi sharks - Check out the sailfish that swims in!!

The cool thing about Earth Touch is that it is fairly current. I think these two clips are only a week old. The guys at Ponta Malongane in Mozambique upload the footage via a satellite link. It is full on high tech stuff.

Graeme and Barry specialize in marine animals and both are spearo's so there clips are alway interesting.

Only 9 days then we are in Mozambique!!

Coatesman

Ban on all diving in Cape Point Nature Reserve!!

Hey guys there is a mail going around with details on the ban on all diving in Cape Point Nature Reserve. Please if you ever use the sea in any way help these guy out and sign. I know we need to conserve what we have, but banning something because it cant / wont be policed properly ... well that just sux!!

Go to:

http://www.petitiononline.com/NoDiveCT/petition-sign.html

Coatesman