Thought I would show off some hard work.

The last couple of days I’ve been training with my boss/mentor Perry and we’ve been going along pretty good. I’ve got about as good of a handle on how this new boat works as you can get in just a couple of days. Now I just have to hope that the National Geographic Sea Bird is kind to me for the next six weeks.

One of the things we’ve been doing to get a bit ahead of the game has been to go through and rebuild a bunch of pumps that we got in shipyard so that we would have good spares on board. The pump above is an all bronze bodied sewage pump. We got kinda silly with it and decided that it would be funny to have a shiny poop pump and the above picture shows the fruits of our labor. It’s probably an engineer joke at best, but I had to show the world anyways.

The trips going great, we’ve had some great weather and the whales have been pretty good. One grey whale put on quite a show earlier breaching twenty something times and putting on a pretty good show. Now we are headed over to the Sea of Cortez, so we should get to see some other cool wild life, too.

I hope to get a little fishing in the next few days. I’ve finally got a pretty good set up, and after pick up a couple small things in Cabo tomorrow I should be set. Hopefully I’ll have pics soon….