Fish and Shop.

A few more pics in Ascension
Fishing here is a joke. If you cannot catch a fish you must be inland somewhere.

Amber-Jack caught by James

Grouper. They practically keep jumping onto the boat. MMMmmm and very Tasty!

James with one of the great fun fighting Black-Jack

Here is the shopping "Blue Route Mall" Ascension 

James outside THE Shop in Ascension

That is it

Checkout. The way I like a shop "simple and quick"

An old anchor abut 40m from our position. And a Turtle (bottom of the pic)

We have been warned not to swim with the turtles, we they are very horny and might mistake you for a partner. And definitely DO NOT wear a green wetsuit......Turtles fall in love easily!!!

Turtle and Eel (just chilling)

Still in Ascension 22 November

Hi we decided to stick around here for a bit with the hope we could have our HAM radio repaired.
There are however not too many spares, so it looks like we will have to leave it till Brazil.
The fishing and diving here is fantastic, so it is not like we have been twiddling our thumbs
Rob

Skittles outside The Saints Club.

Go Girl

Wild Black sheep. About 1000 wild sheep on Ascension

Monkey Rock Cemetary

Devils Ash Pit near the Challenger Space Station

Blow hole

Waiting for the bar to open

Very light rocks on Ascension

Alex at about 14m down

Fort Hayes

Gerda taking a break

US in the Rain Forest (Gorillas in the Mist)

US

Photos on Ascension (What a Great Island)

Hi again.
Just thought I would add a few photos
Hope you enjoy them
Rob

AJ (Alex James) Cove near Comfortless Cove

Alex

Anchored in Comfortless Cove

More Fish (all the time) Blackjack and Trigger Fish

James pointing out a Moray (I don't see it either)

Burgers at The Saints Club with James Stewart

Walking in the Cloud Forest on Green Mountain

On the way to Dew Pond at 875m. Giant Bamboo

Picking Bananas real SA style (Just pull the tree down)

An unhappy Land Crab

Land Crab

The Blowhole at Norh Beach

It just bloody would not budge!!!!!!!

Great meal with James at the Obsidian

Ascension Island HOT HOT !!!

Good afternoon from Ascension,
Having spent 2 weeks bobbing on a mooring at St Helena, we headed up to Ascension Island.
It took just short of 5 days to get here, with a 5 to 10 knot following wind all the way.
We weren't really racing along.
My dear darling Gerda still testing out her weight loss programme but with not as quite as mush enthuasism.
Only puked ONE time!
On the way we caught a Dorado of about 15 kg, so the freezer is now full of fish.
On arrival at 23:00 in the very dark while it was drizzling, (flippen tricky) there were so many fish, just about jumping in to the boat while we were anchoring, Alex James and I fished till 3 in the morning catching Blackjack on our little rods (what good fun) they would just take a empty hook dragged through the water.

Diving has been awesome. 15m some days to 30m vis on others. water temp 27deg C
Only problem is my dive compressor 3rd stage seized (bugger) so now for the moment it is just snorkeling.

Yesterday we went up Green Montain, into the Clouds and huge forest. Chased crazy feral sheep, caught Land Crab, and picked Bananas SA style.

What an interesting rock! At least the weather here is great. So too are the beaches.
There are only 650 people here (total) so everybody knows everybody, and that includes them knowing us. The Saints Club is the Local hang out. And then we all move to the Volcano Club at the American Base for Burgers (good value)

Some Photos.
More tomorrow
Rob

Alex James Rob Jessie Sarah Gerda (just before leaving for St. Helena)

Outside Anne's Place in St. Helena

Very Happy!!!!!! (not boat food :)

School at Anne's

What a good place to relax

(Sorry out of order) Leaving Cape Town

SA Flag and a Braai. Definitely South African

Fixing my shade

699 steps of Jacobs Ladder in St. Helena. Alex went up 5, James 3, Me 2, and Gerda 1

Dorado. Very tasty !!!

Blackjack in Ascension. What a fight!

Gerda and James 27deg C

Trigger Fish everywhere all the time (look around in previous photo)

Hiding from the Heat (Long Beach where Turtles lay their eggs)