Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Great Day for Fishing!

The weather was just right and it was a good time had by all!

Here at Adventures In Paradise we offer a lot of cool things to do, one of which is my favorite, the Backwater Fishing Cruise. As the naturalist on the boat today I was able to talk with all of the guests and found that everyone was from out of town, so no locals today, and that we had a group of 4 all the way from Scotland! I get to meet people from all over the world but today was the first time I met a group from Scotland.

Now on to the catch. With a cool breeze overhead the fishing in Pine Island Sound was pretty good. Our catch consisted of lots of trout, pinfish, blowfish, a catfish or two, and a very prized fish, a pompano.
Overall, the guests today had a wonderful morning!
Till next time,
Adios….. Max

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Full day of fun!

The guests sure had a great time today as all of our adventures went out today!

The following has been written by Naturalist Andrew.

This morning we fished in San Carlos Bay located outside of Sanibel Island, where we saw several small sharks swim around the boat while we caught Spotted Sea Trout and Ladyfish. We also caught a large southern Puffer and a number of pinfish and grunts.

On the Sea life Excursion this afternoon we went to Picnic Island and caught dozens of Sea Horses and Pipefish in the dip nets, along with Kings Crown Shells, Shrimp, and several different kinds of crabs. In the deep net drag we caught a large pinfish, sugar trout, Striped Burr fish, and a baby Cowfish. On the way home we saw plenty of Dolphins playing in the channel by St. James City.

Until next time..

First Mate Andrew

Monday, August 1, 2011

Lots of Adventurers in for some fun today!

Sealife Encounter: Typical beautiful Day, very warm. Dip net fisherman let off at Picnic Island are busy collecting baby sea creatures. After this we searched and found several Dolphins which gave us a pretty good show. Deep water net drag (Otter Trawl), Mike Cohn the Naturalists talks about the sealife caught in the net..he is holding a small Striped Burrfish, one of the puffer fish. The kids, on board, all wet their hands and helped release our new friends, returning them to their watery home unharmed.


Sunset: A really nice evening with a very comfortable breeze out of the West. Probably the youngest Dolphin Watcher at 3 months old on board.

We had a really nice Sunset!


Another nice day.

Capt. Bob