Anyone who hasn’t come across flying fish before, they’re quite gracious creatus, when seen singularly, it’s easy to see the light blue coating as they flitter in and out of water, sometimes like a skipping stone through the rough sea, curving round as they do it. When you see schools of them, you see them charging round in packs like a squadron of defence aircraft in packs heading out with purpose – zooming in and out of each other and the waves. It’s quite an impressive sight.
But they have a dark side...
At night, possibly confused by the navigation lights (I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt), they come at you. Like kamikaze. Occasionally the helmsman will have to duck as there’s one coming right at their head. It’s not a pretty to see them knock themselves out and fall back in the water stunned from the head blow they’ve just taken. At least that’s if it’s lucky. We’re very sorry to have to share with you that today we found one had made it into our goody chest in the saloon. He’s been there a while. You can guess the smell.
Love rainmaker x