David Attenborough Style.

This is my final blog, and I feel it’s only right to leave you with a fishing story—although, strictly speaking, no actual fishing took place.

My husband and I were recently in New Zealand and decided to do the beautiful walk out to the Blue Pools.

It was a stunning spot. Crystal-clear water, peaceful surroundings… the kind of place where you expect to see something special.

And apparently, he did.

“There are SALMON in the river. HUGE SALMON!” he announced, with the level of excitement usually reserved for winning the lottery. (Now, as you may have gathered from my previous blogs, we are very keen fishermen. “Calm observation” is not our strength when fish are involved.)

Out came the camera at lightning speed.

Click. Click click click.

“Oh wow, look at that one!”Click.“And that one!”Click click.“I can’t believe the size of them!”

Meanwhile, I’m standing there thinking… what fish?

“Where?” I asked, squinting into what appeared to be… water. Just water. Lovely water, yes—but fish? No.

“Right there!” he said, pointing with great urgency. “Near the surface! They’re massive!”

I leaned over the bridge. Nothing.

“Can I borrow your sunnies?”

I put them on.

And BAM.

Fish. Everywhere.

Huge ones. Gliding around like they owned the place.

Ahhh… polarised sunglasses. The magical fish-revealing device.

Then, slowly—very slowly—it dawned on me.

I turned to him.

“You do realise… you’ve just taken about 50 photos… of water?”

Pause.

We looked at the camera.

We looked at the river.

We looked at each other.

We burst into laughter.

Naturally, as I’m sure David Attenborough must’ve have done at one point in his career, we attempted to fix the situation by holding the sunglasses lenses over the camera. It seemed a very logical, highly technical solution at the time.

Shockingly… it didn’t work.

So now, somewhere in our photo collection, we have an entire series titled: ‘Incredible Giant Salmon of New Zealand’…Featuring nothing but exceptionally well-photographed water.

Too funny.

Can you see it??????