Weekend Summary
Aug. 15th, 2006 04:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
abbandonoSo I spent the weekend in Port Aransas on a bachelor-party deep-sea fishing trip for a friend at work. It was mostly a weekend of failed plans and last-minute workarounds, with the original early-morning launch for Saturday getting abruptly cancelled, and then a just-as-abrupt rescheduling for a late-night outing Saturday night.
Many of us regretted that abruptness, and learned that cramming shrimp tacos fresh off the grill just before going on a boat is not such a good idea unless one is actually wanting to serve as a human chum-bucket. Luckily, I continued my streak of never being seasick, but the misery of the others did take some of the shine off the trip.
The weekend did have its highlights, though. In particular, the eerie clearness of the water when the fishing boat anchored for the last time that night, just downwind of an abandoned oil platform. The shiny needlefish darting near the surface reflected the light from the boat beautifully.
And even cooler was standing in the surf Friday night, turning toward shore, and seeing a lovely black-on-black tableau that looked like the cover of the Cocteau Twins' The Pink Opaque.
Many of us regretted that abruptness, and learned that cramming shrimp tacos fresh off the grill just before going on a boat is not such a good idea unless one is actually wanting to serve as a human chum-bucket. Luckily, I continued my streak of never being seasick, but the misery of the others did take some of the shine off the trip.
The weekend did have its highlights, though. In particular, the eerie clearness of the water when the fishing boat anchored for the last time that night, just downwind of an abandoned oil platform. The shiny needlefish darting near the surface reflected the light from the boat beautifully.
And even cooler was standing in the surf Friday night, turning toward shore, and seeing a lovely black-on-black tableau that looked like the cover of the Cocteau Twins' The Pink Opaque.