Positive Fishing Letters: Living the dream: sea change to Exmouth off to a great start!

My 2016 Motto!

After eight months living on the beach not talking to anyone else, just the two of us running around naked most the time, it was a little weird returning to normal life. Simple things like dealing with traffic and talking to people at the shops made me realise just how long we had been living off the grid! It took a few weeks just to be able to talk to people normally again. I wouldn't go as far as saying we had become shy, we just seemed to have forgot how to talk to people. Thats sorted now, with us both finding work straight away, we just had to start dealing with people, and normal life again.

We are starting to settle back into 'normal' life now, getting up for work in the mornings, starting a fitness routine before work, after work beers, shopping, bills paying, renovation plans...and fishing trips!!

Being able to pop down to the beach for a quick fish and snorkel is totally amazing! Johnno has had a couple of weeks off work, so he drops me off and heads straight for the shallows for a little bit of fly fishing; shame I wasn't there to take a photo when he caught this beauty Queen fish on fly, GoPro never dose them enough justice, but you get the idea; it was a beautiful big fish landed on his 8wt fly rod that he has only just got back (remember he broke it on our holiday).

It's windy season here, so boat trips are limited. We did last week get a little break in the wind and headed straight out in Little Thing (our tinny) to see what the birds were so excited about. One hour trip before the wind picked up resulted in 3 little tuna. Not bad for an after work fish!

It's not all fun and games and fishing here, we are working...oh wait, I AM working!! Johnno is still on christmas holidays!!! Haha. We have started planning some great adventures and goals for 2016, most of them mean we have to keep working...or win lotto. Here's a little look at things we plan to get done in 2016: