Chapter 282: The Sea Serpent
There are too many comfortable days, and the old Ford pickup truck sits on the butt with a sore butt.
There was also an 80s Lincoln City sedan left by the previous owner at the Gambo Sea Ranch, which was too ugly to look at, and it had been there for several years, and there was no gas in the tank, so I drove out in two pickup trucks.
Pooh They are picky eaters, Han Xuan personally tasted a few fruits before buying them, otherwise the taste would not be palatable at that time, and the gang of uncles would definitely lose their temper, and after paying the money, they carried the wooden frame full of fruits into the back compartment and drove towards the west coast.
At about two o'clock in the afternoon, there was a wind blowing in the Pacific Ocean, and it was not hot in October, so it was just comfortable to wear short sleeves.
The sky was light blue, with large clouds of white clouds.
The deep blue sea and white fishing boats overlap each other from a distance, and seabirds fly by in flocks in the middle, free and relaxed.
The residents who live on the shore enjoy it.
Simple houses can enjoy the beautiful scenery of Monterey Bay, some areas are being developed, it seems that they plan to build a sea view villa area, where there is a beautiful view, there is the shadow of the developer, here the villas are not worried about selling, and each yard door is posted with a "sold" sign.
Tourists line up to pick their favorite fishing boats and wait to go out to sea with the sailors to see how they catch the fish, with an excited expression on their faces.
The captain was also happy, one person meant a pure profit of hundreds of dollars, just bringing more people, anyway, he still had to go to sea, and he could spend a lot of time distributing life jackets to them to wear.
More than half of the fishing boats are offshore fishing boats like the Little Penguin, holding ten more people to death, and the captain saw that there were still people coming, and when he refused, his expression was more disappointed than that of tourists, and he looked back at the sailors, his eyes flashed, probably trying to throw them down to save space
The sea in front of Fisherman's Wharf.
There are constantly boats going out. Boats were constantly coming in, and the fishermen could judge what they were getting by the depth of the draft alone, and they could shout congratulations or laugh at them, and like cowboys, they were free people.
As for how each harvest is. That's something the captain should be worried about.
The old canning factory has been converted into hotels, restaurants, craft shops, and in the sixties and seventies it was the largest sardine mill on the West Coast.
Unfortunately, the sardine school gradually decreased, and the technology did not keep up, and it took half a century to develop a new factory, which only took more than five years to decay, but fortunately, with the arrival of tourists, it was rejuvenated in another way.
"I remember there used to be a few fishing tackle shops here, but they weren't there. Steward Erna wondered, and looked to the side of the street. Put your hands on the car window.
"Let's ask somebody, these shops seem to have only just opened. ”
After Han Xuan finished speaking, Jason stopped the car and said to the owner of the sunglasses stall on the side of the road with a smile on his face, "Sorry, excuse me, where did the shop that used to sell fishing tackle move here?"
"Sir, don't you look at your sunglasses?"
"No, you don't. ”?
"Buy one. Jason.
Sir, can you talk about it now?" Han Xuan handed a five-yuan bill to the stall owner. I casually pointed to a pair of glasses that looked good.
"That one costs ten dollars, and the most expensive one is it, and if you buy two, it's only fifteen dollars. ”
Sure enough, only the heart is blacker, and there is no heart that is the blackest, originally thought it was a Chinese specialty. Now that I think about it, it may be that with the wave of reform and opening up, the first batch of trend-setters learned from the West.
"I want a pair, and I'll give you another five dollars, can you?"
"From here, go straight and you'll see it when you turn the sign for Betley Street. All the tackle shops have moved there this year, and it's too noisy. The stall owner showed Han Xuan the sunglasses and said with a smile.
The housekeeper of Erna looked at him quietly, it was just a little money, but the conscience of the money was gone, it was not worth saying, it was more important to maintain the face of the wealthy family, and turned his head: "I know where Betley Street is, let's go first......"
Coming to the place just guided, in addition to the fishing tackle shop, there are many shops on both sides of the street to buy seafood, the fishing boat that went to sea in the morning just came back at this time, almost every store is standing in front of a group of people to help the fish weigh, some big fish are three or four meters long, only the small seaside town can see this novel scene.
I picked a fishing tackle shop with a relatively large storefront, in which a middle-aged woman was lying on a chair and eating melon seeds, and when she saw this group of strangely mixed people, she didn't think it was a fisherman on the sea, and said in a daze: "Come to buy something?"
Amused by her words, Han Xuan said: "Otherwise, I just bought a fishing boat, I need to equip it with some tools, and I have a trawl, what else do I need to buy?"
"How big is the fishing boat, and where is the fishing ground?"
"A 300-ton medium-sized trawler, and a 50-ton offshore fishing vessel, the fishing ground is in Monterey Bay, Gambo Sea Ranch, ma'am. ”
Hearing this, the shopkeeper took a closer look at Han Xuan, everyone had heard of Ganbao Marine Ranch, but its owner had never fished, thinking that the area was so large, there must be a lot of things to buy, so he immediately clapped his hands and stood up and bypassed the counter, "There are not many three-hundred-ton ships in Monterey Town, I want to think about what to buy, the equipment is all installed?"
"Hmm. ”
"You have to buy diving tools, some shellfish grow in the deep sea, you have to buy heavy diving equipment, and you have to buy shrimp pots, and Monterey Bay produces a large part of its annual output."
The shopkeeper was interrupted by the commotion outside and stared up at the door.
Han Xuan faintly heard someone calling for a kraken, a sea snake and the like, and then hurriedly got in the car and drove away.
Interested said to Elna: "I'll go see what's going on." ”
"I guess I caught something strange again, there are a lot of unknown creatures in the sea, and it happens several times a year.
Go ahead, those fishermen wrote me a list of things to buy, you can't be wrong. ”
"Alright, we'll pick you up later, Al Reality. Jason went out and drove, followed the other cars, and a few minutes later came to the beach, where hundreds of people were standing on the shore watching.
A ribbon in the sea is more than ten meters long, with red fins on its back, and its body color is white, writhing and rolling in the sea, indeed like a big snake.
The appearance frightened the people present, and they exclaimed: "The legend of the sea serpent is true!
Han Xuan had read in many books about the word sea serpent, which was often encountered by medieval navigators, and was demonized into a legend in the Western world, and encountering it meant ominous.
Staring at the thing in the sea with wide eyes, convinced that it was alive, it crashed into a small sailboat on the shore, and directly overturned the boat on the water, and a man and a woman on the boat were stopped by it just now and did not dare to approach the shore, and now they all fell into the sea.
Crying and screaming, waving and struggling, they forgot to swim in a nervous state, sank down and floated up again, the scene touched everyone's hearts, but no one dared to go into the water to save them, and took a few steps back, their faces frightened, muttering God save him.
Jason had been a soldier and had been on the battlefield, and after being shocked, he came back to his senses and pulled out his pistol, "Save them?"
"Help, kill that thing!"
With the boy's permission, Jason pointed to one of the bodyguards, "George, get him away! )