I’m Canadian and live in British Columbia. Hockey is not a sport for us. Soccer is a sport, baseball and basketball are sports. Hockey……is well………..hockey. Yesterday I woke up to a magnificent Bahamian sun streaming over the flats of Exuma. Miles of white sand starting to show as the tide receded, just beyond the porch of our rented home. SKYPED my son back home (4:00 a.m. his time) because I knew he would be awake. Everyone in Canada was awake. Because the Gold Medal hockey game was about to start. And start it did. Out front, the tide was falling and the tails were popping but my wife and I did not move. Planted firmly in front of the TV, we rooted on the team and shouted encouragement as if we were in the stands. It was the perfect game, 3 – 0 for the good guys. Ending the Winter Games with a Gold Medal in hockey. What could make this day any better. Maybe a few bonefish. The two of us jumped in the kayak, paddled across the channel for 200 yards and began fishing. The tide was just starting to come in but we still had a couple of hours. I saw hundreds of fish, landed some in the five-pound range and best of all I had a nice walk in bare feet while sharing all of it with my favourite fishing partner. The Perfect Morning.
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