Man Trip by Graham Salisbury

Author:Graham Salisbury
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Boys & Men, Juvenile Fiction, Humorous Stories, Social Issues, General
ISBN: 9780375897979
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
Published: 2012-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

Ledward opened the fish box built into the deck, and Baja Bill lowered the ono into it. Ledward tore open a bag of ice and spread the ice over the fish.

I couldn’t believe I’d just caught it. “He was strong,” I said, holding the rod with trembling hands.

Baja Bill grinned. “But you were stronger.”

Baja Bill fired up and headed the Kakalina out to deeper sea.

The engines hummed endlessly. It took ten minutes for my hands to stop shaking.

Sometime around noon, I was lounging in the fighting chair watching two dark seabirds skimming the water, looking for food. They flew so smooth and perfect they almost put me to sleep.

Baja Bill got on his radio and called the skipper of another boat. I could hear him talking about where the fish action was that day.

Ledward came up to stand beside me. “Can you believe how close those birds can get to the water?”

“I wish I could fly like that. What are they called?”

“Wedge-tailed shearwater. ’U’au kani is the Hawaiian name.”

“Hey,” Baja Bill called from the flying bridge. He pointed. “Look.”

About a half mile away, a swirling mass of birds circled the sea. Hundreds. Maybe thousands.

Ledward gave Baja Bill a thumbs-up and hung on to the fighting chair as Bill swung the boat around to head toward the swirling black specks. “Birds like that mean fish.”

Within minutes, we were cruising through them. It was the most amazing thing I’d ever seen. Birds everywhere, like a cloud of them. And we were right in the middle of it.

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