Photo: Father and daughter...

Me and Loz caught two tuna but I made her gut them to see if she's grown up yet. And she did gut them so we stuck them on the barbecue with pad thai rice laced with fresh limes. We watched the sun go down and then took turns on watch through the night with a sweet wind that pushed us northward to Koh Rok Nok in Thailand. We set the anchor the next morning as close inshore as the reefs would let us and just far enough offshore to stop the monkeys climbing through the hatches and going through the fridge. When the anchor drifted out Loz told me the currents were slack enough to scuba under the boat so we could clean the prop shaft and keel. Half an hour later we were five meters down with the underside of the hull banging on my head. I could see Loz was laughing inside her mask but an hour later we had the job done.

Before we surfaced I watched her make her way under the boat to the swim ladder and I thought 'life doesn't get any better than this'. Then I felt tears well up in my eyes, which freaked me out as I suddenly thought that no one ever tells you what happens when you cry in your mask underwater. Perhaps they never surface and don't live to tell the tale. Then I felt all whimpish because Troy Tempest never cried in 'Stingray'. He always seemed to have a smile on his face when he was swimming underwater right behind Marina, the beautiful aqua princess who couldn't talk....

Any of you lot think I can't catch fish then think again.
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