Florida Keys - Fishing Trip 1

Jordan and I went to the Florida Keys last week for a vacation!!! We celebrated the fact that Jordan graduated and that he has a job. It was wonderful. Claire stayed with Laura and Matt, so Jordan and I had time to ourselves.

On Monday morning, we went fishing with Kevin from Reel Adventures. It was fantastic!

Thankfully, the rain missed us, but we didn't miss the rainbow!

Shark on! Once a shark realizes he's hooked, he'll swim down, down, down - and fast! So you just have to wait until he settles down a little bit, and then you can start reeling him bak in. It took Jordan about 10 minutes.

And here he is! Look at that nurse shark!

After feeling how rough he was, we let him go. What a beauty!

Then it was my turn! I caught a shark, too!

I worked for about 10 minutes, and I saw him. - I saw the shark in the water. He was close to the boat, but then he finally snapped the line. Bummer!

We both caught amberjacks at the same time. They ate the bait we were using to try to catch tarpons. (No luck with the tarpons). And a little bit later, they became bait themselves...

This one was fun!

It's a barracuda!

Got it!

Here, the amberjacks and barracuda became more shark bait.

Carcasses in the water - you know sharks like blood, right?!

And we got one! This one is Jordan's. We weren't sure what kind of shark this was. Kevin named a long list of types of shark that it is NOT.

We were back by lunch, and THAT is the storm we missed. Thank goodness!

What an AWESOME way to start our vacation!!!!