John B
04-09-2002, 12:58 AM
This copy and pasting lark is good eh. " here's one I prepared earlier" LOL.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid18/p5019a6f896f1f48e939468d7c7397b41/fdd24443.jpg
The Pink Peg.
Last season sometime it came to light that our friend Dave,(The skipper of Ronaki) had discovered that all beaches have at least one pink plastic clothes peg washed up on it. This has rather escalated into a sort of Waione versus Ronaki " who has found a pink peg" competition. It's all very civilised normally but I'm afraid that the Waiones are responsible for an escalation in manouvres. It all started fairly smoothly. As normal, each family would make it to the new beach. A bit of a chat, skim some stones, bomb a piece of wood, quietly meander down the beach or across the rocks and find a pink peg. First to find has kudos.
That all changed when we spent the day at Anita bay. We were heading further around the coast but it was blowing too hard just around the corner. Stopping at Anita bay was a real find. Rocky islets and cliffs either side of a steeply shelving pebble beach.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid18/p612dfe1f30b6feb02a6acde635cdba82/fdd274f8.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid18/p9b38ece2ec7afbf577f29aa0be8c5e5c/fdd274f5.jpg
Both boats stopped for lunch aboard. We waited until they were committed to their sandwiches and in a well oiled operation the kids were marshalled below decks( picture a Dakota with paras nervously preparing for the jump) fitted into their parach....I mean life jackets, and then.... right you, into the dinghy, you, you, go go go. 4 oars hitting hull speed as we emerged from under the bow of Waione heading for the beach at full speed. Oh, how terrible it must have been to be sitting aboard the Ronaki that day. The beer no doubt just opened, the sammy halfway to the collective mouth, the thought of a quiet siesta and then a leisurely search of the virgin beach.
No way Hose.
We were in before they even left the boat and the first peg found before they were ashore.
There were repercussions though. The next day at Hooks bay, those dastardly Ronakis were on the beach at 7.00 AM scouring 200 metres of beach and coming up with 4 before we were even awake.
As an interesting aside, we were having a bit of a get together on another beach a few days before with other people. These others happened to remark on the fact that Dave was wearing pink clothes pegs attached to his collar and that I had been seen with them on the brim of my hat. This generated a conversation on the subject . It transpired that my theory that the reason that only pink pegs are found is that fish get all the other colours was disputed. Evidently, I was told, Pink in fact ,is good for catching fish, a challenge which could not go untried. The morning that the Ronakis played their trump and searched the beach before we were even stirring, I made a lure from a pink peg and a couple of days later I was to find that a pink peg is LETHAL to fish. I made an experiment using a known lure as a control and then used both the pink peg lure and the fork lure.( you remember the knife and the fork lures?) 4 with the PP, 2 with the fork and small ones chucked back with the control.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid18/p2a6e69b6cff47f5e1dcb760feae8c4ca/fdd274da.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid18/pa940211e2f5b089e2d38db3b25d05246/fdd274d6.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid18/pc1d04b58d4a44998759c136e7aafa8b7/fdd274d4.jpg
I rest my case.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid18/p5019a6f896f1f48e939468d7c7397b41/fdd24443.jpg
The Pink Peg.
Last season sometime it came to light that our friend Dave,(The skipper of Ronaki) had discovered that all beaches have at least one pink plastic clothes peg washed up on it. This has rather escalated into a sort of Waione versus Ronaki " who has found a pink peg" competition. It's all very civilised normally but I'm afraid that the Waiones are responsible for an escalation in manouvres. It all started fairly smoothly. As normal, each family would make it to the new beach. A bit of a chat, skim some stones, bomb a piece of wood, quietly meander down the beach or across the rocks and find a pink peg. First to find has kudos.
That all changed when we spent the day at Anita bay. We were heading further around the coast but it was blowing too hard just around the corner. Stopping at Anita bay was a real find. Rocky islets and cliffs either side of a steeply shelving pebble beach.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid18/p612dfe1f30b6feb02a6acde635cdba82/fdd274f8.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid18/p9b38ece2ec7afbf577f29aa0be8c5e5c/fdd274f5.jpg
Both boats stopped for lunch aboard. We waited until they were committed to their sandwiches and in a well oiled operation the kids were marshalled below decks( picture a Dakota with paras nervously preparing for the jump) fitted into their parach....I mean life jackets, and then.... right you, into the dinghy, you, you, go go go. 4 oars hitting hull speed as we emerged from under the bow of Waione heading for the beach at full speed. Oh, how terrible it must have been to be sitting aboard the Ronaki that day. The beer no doubt just opened, the sammy halfway to the collective mouth, the thought of a quiet siesta and then a leisurely search of the virgin beach.
No way Hose.
We were in before they even left the boat and the first peg found before they were ashore.
There were repercussions though. The next day at Hooks bay, those dastardly Ronakis were on the beach at 7.00 AM scouring 200 metres of beach and coming up with 4 before we were even awake.
As an interesting aside, we were having a bit of a get together on another beach a few days before with other people. These others happened to remark on the fact that Dave was wearing pink clothes pegs attached to his collar and that I had been seen with them on the brim of my hat. This generated a conversation on the subject . It transpired that my theory that the reason that only pink pegs are found is that fish get all the other colours was disputed. Evidently, I was told, Pink in fact ,is good for catching fish, a challenge which could not go untried. The morning that the Ronakis played their trump and searched the beach before we were even stirring, I made a lure from a pink peg and a couple of days later I was to find that a pink peg is LETHAL to fish. I made an experiment using a known lure as a control and then used both the pink peg lure and the fork lure.( you remember the knife and the fork lures?) 4 with the PP, 2 with the fork and small ones chucked back with the control.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid18/p2a6e69b6cff47f5e1dcb760feae8c4ca/fdd274da.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid18/pa940211e2f5b089e2d38db3b25d05246/fdd274d6.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid18/pc1d04b58d4a44998759c136e7aafa8b7/fdd274d4.jpg
I rest my case.