August 24th

Happy Birthday to me!

Still out on the sea. Seems like this trip is going to be just over 2 weeks. I think in three days time we will be going to the harbour to unload.

The mackerel has been coming in nice and steady and in big numbers, which is good. I'm getting faster and better at my job which means I don't get cursed at anymore, which is also good. So life is good.

I have been thinking about Koh Rong lately and how I miss the place. Not the work but the wibe of the place itself. I want to go back there. I want to go be a boatboy for free for some of the nice boat drivers there.

I also want to go to India. To see Rajastan and Varanasi. And to go hiking in the Himalayas.

And I haven't done any of the ”must-do” things in Australia yet. There is Uluru (Ayers Rock), Great ocean road, Fraser Island, Byron Bay and so much more.

If I travel around here after I hop off this boat I am afraid I don't have enough money to do anything else when I leave the country. Except to go back to Finland and start working again.

If I am lucky this gig will spawn me another season fishing for something else. Maybe my captains son knows a boat I can go on working for the scallop season. That would give me more chance of income and it ends in December, so I would have more money to possibly do more than one of the options I have...

But time will show.

EDIT:

While sitting on the railing on my tiny spot between the net reel and the sea waiting to put on floater bubbles on to a net speeding past me faster than one meter per second, I had a time to think before the boat reached it's desired fishing spot. I will just play this out first and see what the end result is. No use for me to start getting ahead things even if I feel the travelbug itching on me harder every day.

Maybe it would be a good idea to do some research on India before just rushing off. Koh Rong will be there for me if I want to get back there. And who knows what future brings anyway?

For now it's still 45 days until the fishing season ends here.