Learning to throw a cast net

My friend Cindy from the Oriental Consignment shop loaned me a cast net to catch shrimp with, and I have been learning how to use it. Funny thing about cast nets, you can watch 10 youtube vids on them, and see 10 ways to throw it that works perfect in the video. Then when you try all 10 ways to cast it, not one of them work. I did catch 1 shrimp with it so I know the little guys are out there just waiting to come to my boat for dinner. I just need to learn how to cast it better. So every day I am out there for a few hours casting it and pulling it back in. I know at some point I will learn the throw that works for me.

My time here in Oriental is growing shorter by the day. Right now I am waiting for a check to clear and then I will be getting my final provisions to put out to sea. So my excitement level is pretty high.

I leave you this time with a quote from Homer's Odyssey 

'Odysseus spread his sail to the wind with joy, and steered the raft cleverly with the oar as he sat there. At night he never closed his eyes in sleep, but watched the Pleiades, late-setting Bootes, and the Great Bear that men call the Wain, that circles in place opposite Orion, and never bathes in the sea.'

My time in Oriental is finely growing short.

Well now I am counting down the days to my hard target date of Sept. 1^st when I will be pulling out of Oriental NC. It's a feeling of excitement to know this will finely be the end of my tenure here in this town. With the motor all picked out and finding a great deal on a used porta bote with the sail kit included I am really truly psyched. I am also getting better batteries, an inverter, a charger, and a small gas powered generator. I am also going to lay out a little for a better camera. Actually two better cameras

  One will be a Liquid Image HD and 5mp still camera that is waterproof up to 65 feet

The other is a Kodak PlaySport pocket HD video 5mp still camera that is water proof up to 10 feet.

Originally I was going to just buy one better camera with better quality but when I saw the liquid image camera I knew that for my adventure I needed one. The up side is that I can get both of them together for less then my camera budget of $300.00

I have made some great friends down here in Oriental Jeff who run's the Oriental Steamer (a great place to eat) and Cindy who runs the Consignment shop are both great people. So if you ever find yourself pulling in to this harbor make sure to visit both and tell them Brad says Hi. Pretty much all the people here are very friendly and a joy to be around. But my journey doesn't end here, there is so much world ,and I have to see as much of it as I can.

I have to keep going because I want to walk on deserted beaches in the rain, climb mountains, swim the oceans, and meet people in the smallest of villages, in as many places as I can. The world is a huge place and my house moves. So as I ready my boat to put out to sea I remind myself that a rolling stone gathers no moss.

My parting thought today as I get ready to work on some rigging is something that Sir Francis Drake once said, and I quote

"It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better."