Our Vacation Day Three

Today we went on a chartered ocean fishing trip. It was a very peaceful day on the ocean, the water was so flat that it felt and looked like we were fishing on a lake. The boat left at 6:00am and we returned to shore after everyone on board had caught their limit of fish at a little after noon. Kyle caught 6 fish and I caught 5, but we were able to each take home 8 fish (if you would like some good fish let us know because our freezer is overflowing). Kyle and I only caught rock fish, although some of the people on board were able to catch a Chinese cod, some ling cod, and a mother-in-law fish (it gets its name because it is mean, puts up a heck of a fight, and because it is so ugly). One person on board even caught a duck. The ducks in the ocean dive over a 180 feet to catch fish and one duck caught the man next to me's hook instead of a fish. We saw hundreds of jelly fish swimming in the water and even saw a few dolphins.

Here are the pictures of our fishing trip.

"Fish on!"

Even our little baby caught a little baby fish.

The guy next to me had to reel his duck in over 200 feet.

The bird was very mad when it got on board and bit the captain when he tried to remove the hook from its wing. The bird was okay and flew very far away from the boat (very fast) when we set it free.

Our trophy size fish

All 16 of the fish we got to take home with us.

After fishing we went to a nearby town called Coos Bay where we went to a botanical garden and saw sea lions on rocks in the ocean. The botanical garden was huge and very beautiful. The garden was donated to the state by a very wealthy couple who built it themselves. We didn't take as many pictures as we wanted to because our battery was starting to get low.

Us under a giant rhododendron bush.

This is a Monkey Puzzle Tree

This rose was larger than a large grapefruit.

We found some rock that had hundreds of seals and sea lions on them. They were all barking very loudly.