He'd had a long battle with Emphysema.
He was my wifes GrandDad, I'd only known him about 10years but geez I'd grown to like him, an hosest, call it as he sees it and says what he thinks guy.
He loved to keep busy in his shed fixing EVERYTHING.
Last time I saw him he forced himself out of his chair and shuffled thru the house and out the backyard round to the shed, where he proudly showed off the new Toyota Yaris he'd bought for his wife. His shed is amazing, mostly handmade tools and he was never known to throw things away.
He once asked me for some old bicycle spokes for a project he had on, I had no idea what he wanted them for, so I took him 3-4 boxes of brandnew old stock double butted and galvanized spokes. He was taken aback and said that old ones cut out of old wheels would have been suffice.
He only wanted a dozen or so, I thought I'd impress him with a few hundred.
As it turned out he was stoked and a few weeks later we were rewarded with the finished product, He'd cut out plastic flowers and painted the spokes black and made the spokes a stem/stalk to stick them in the garden.
Anyway, following his funeral where there was more joy than sadness, we headed into the hall next door where we got on the P!ss just before midday, breaking the golden rule.
After an hour or so of chit chat sandwiches and cakes the group had thinned down to mainly family. I decided it was time for me to head off and spend some time on my own to reflect, I headed to the infamous Pyramid Rock to check the possible SpearFishing conditions as I'd packed my gear. Here are the photos....
That's Pyramid Rock, a rock formation a few hundred metres off the point, I'm sure if I can actually get out there oneday it'll be teaming with fish!
The view east back toward Phillip Island Raceway
The view to the west where you can just make out the Knobbies and Seal Rocks, the mecca of Seals and White Pointers in Victoria! Yes and we dive only a few Km's up the coast from them!
The protected bay where I've been several times inc trips with TKA, Monster and Bazza.TKA shot his first fishes here. Two whoppers, he promises they looked bigger under the water but both were less than 20cm despite him claiming they were 30-40cm, he claims deflection under the water, an anomalies I've never personally encountered in my 18years of SpearFishing.
Anyway, I spoke to Monster who had also just attended a Funeral of a friends mother. So it was to be known this day forward as 'CoT Funeral Day'
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Funny how funerals come in waves so to speak (pun intended..)
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