At 5:00pm sharp we all made our way down to the hospital end of the wharf and turned to face our boat. The boat... It certainly didn't look too solid! After somehow fitting 13 of us, Chickoo, Happy and another local we set off to the southern end of Thinadhoo. We stayed there for about half an hour and only managed to catch each other's lines or pieces of coral. The water itself was amazing though: cobalt blue, very deep, and yet you could still see the coral on the ocean floor. We soon left that spot to find another location. After making a detour past a rocky outcrop so Happy could put two large rocks on the boat (we had lost the anchor to the reef, so the rocks became our anchor), we got going and anchored somewhere between Thinadhoo and Kaadhedhoo.
We sat there for a while before anything was caught, but after that the fish just kept coming. Among the fish we caught was an eel and a large chunk of coral. I can only say that I half caught mine however... I think the men were getting fed up with most of us not catching anything, so they took our lines, got a fish on the hook (in hardly any time) and gave the reel back to us to pull them up.
The bigger fish was mine.
When we arrived back to Thinadhoo, the fish were taken to the Blue House to be cooked. As tempting as it was to eat, I was exhausted and coming down with the cold/sore throat/cough that had apprently gone around all of the volunteers. Bed was calling my name.
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