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Thanks Dave. Fishing was actually good. We were actually jigging out off of Nanouse Bay, Vancouver Island. Out in Zuneroa, there's a little strait there with some islands that are in tight and the water is still low in the rivers right now because it hasn't really rained enough yet. So all the salmon are sitting out there waiting to go up a handful of rivers, particularly the Englishman River. I caught a coho, I only fished one day, we only fished for a couple hours. That was Friday and I caught a nice coho. The highlight though was the whales. We found ourselves completely surrounded by at least three pods of humpback whales and we were just there, just floating and all of a sudden they're right there. They were so close, their breath, their spray, their blows was coming onto us and I have some excellent video of it, like of the fluke's flapping smack in the water and there was, I think they were, I don't know, they're not carnivores, they're baleen, I don't know what they call it, filter feeders. One was slapping the water repeatedly, slapping the water with its dorsal. It was really cool, it just came out of the water and sub-bang, over and over and over again. I look over to my right into the sunset and I could see all these whales blowing through this, their spray up through the sunset. It was just beautiful, just a stunning, amazing British Columbia moment that we're very lucky to have here and I really enjoyed it. But my radio, and I'll end this quick, was circumnavigating with our Pika balloon NFR11 and then we were very, very pleased for Emil to do the same. So that was my highlight of the radio summer. So thank you for taking out a sequence, I'm here with friends and we're going to have brunch now so that's why I got in here early. 73, VA7SL.