San Nicholas Island

December 2001, Matt and I trekked out to San Nic island aboard the Pacific Star for two days of lobster hunting. The boat did very well as a whole, with most people limiting out early both days. Between Matt and I, we bagged three nice ones, and a bunch of pictures. Here is the first batch of pics, from Matt's digital camera (Topside). Underwater pics coming as soon as I finish scanning them in.

The back of the boat

Me and my comfy drysuit, and Bryan

Sunbeams shortly after dawn

The island itself, a small rock

Most of the military installation

Note the wakes on the rope floats... strong current

Bryan and Zac see how Kevin scored

Zac's first condender for the record, 7 pounds

Bug Bottom!

Zac's 7 pounder

Matt and Marlon Liburdi don't fool around...

Matt and Marlon Liburdi don't fool around...

Playful sea lion wants to know what is in the game bags!

Marlon crushes Zac with a 14 pound monster!

Bugzilla!

Marlon and his prize

That is a BIG lobster!!!

Another view of the island, not much to see.

Erosion in the rocky hill

Tina taking a nap in the warm sun

The Dinghy

Jimbo

Waves breaking around the far away point

Really nice boat!

Tina warming up in the sun

Sunset between storms

Sunset

Sunset

Sunset clouds

clouds at sunset

More sunset

Waves breaking at the "boilers".

Waves

Waves breaking

Diver getting getting good use of the current line

The waves were really big!

Zac and Bob need to be brought back with the boat...

from waaaay out there!

Hoisting the gear into the dinghy

BAD Diver!!! (just kidding).

Now the hard part.. the people!

Really big waves!!!!

waves

Crash!!! where's the surfboard?

Three big engines!

The "boilers"

Still trying to catch a wave

There's a big one

One of the crew taking pics of the waves too.

Our own waves... well, wake anyway.

Zoom

Kevin trying to decide if he wants to do another dive...

Secret military communications towers... oops!

We went around the corner to try to avoid the waves...

Where they were more manageable.

Yes, the island is that barren!

Adding some fish to the mix!

Time to admire the catch

Some of Kevin's catch

The Liburdi brothers!

Lots of bugs!

Give us water!!!!

New mascot?

The Liburdi brothers and the big daddies!

Smile!

Kevin, Matt and Marlon

Too many cameras!

Smile!

Kevin and his big guys

Our three bugs

Our catch

A sinkful of lobster

legs everywhere!

Midnight is not very impressed with an antenna...

and Flower is scared of it!

Last updated: Mon Dec 24 01:08:18 PST 2001