Month: June 2016

Best fishing Weekend Ever!

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Alright, so a new blog post. I’ll talk about my weekend. Well, more like just Saturday.

I woke up bright and early on Saturday morning. 6:15 am!!! But this was to go fishing so I was happy with the early wake up. Dad woke me up an hour late so I decided to have a shower to wake myself up. I don’t usually shower before fishing because I just get smelly on the boat and no one is gonna see me. I made a coffee in mums travel mug just before dad and I left to pick up Lochie, he was coming with us too! With his gear in the boat and him in the backseat with all the dog fur, we drove towards town on hopefully a great day of fishing. But that was just false hope.

Soon after we rocked up at the boat ramp and spotted the public toilet wall graffitied with spray paint. It wasn’t mindless graffiti, it was quite artistic. Anyway, we launched the boat and Lochie and I are waiting for dad to park the car when he spots heaps of decent sized mullet schooling around the jetty. I jumped in the boat, grabbed the gaff and attempted to gaff one of them. I failed miserably. Dad hops in the boat and we’re off, gliding across the cold water of the Murchison. The air was that much colder that steam was visible on the waters surface and we could see our breaths. And thus, we begin our long drive out west.

After half an hour of driving, we pass underneath a raining cloud. It rained on us but it was light. The rain produced a spectacular double rainbow in the distance, and one end seemed to finish exactly at our spot.
“Well this is our lucky day Lochie!” I yell over the roaring wind
“Hope so!” He shouts back. That’s where we were wrong. Not 5 minutes after the double rainbow vanished, our engine cut out. At first I thought dad stopped the boat because he saw some good ground but he didn’t do it. The key wasn’t responding!!!! He checked the motor, lifted it up and declared that we were stuck. Dad radioed the VMR (voluntary marine rescue) and got them to tow us back through the river mouth. Lochie and I still wanted to fish so we dropped a metal jig over the side. We had only just begun jigging that day and we were pretty carp at it. (did you see what I did there?) we weren’t over any good ground either and we jigged for an hour until the VMR boat arrived to tow us in. With a mess up with attaching the tow rope to the front of the boat, we enjoyed a ride home without the sound of the motor. It didn’t feel natural moving that fast on a boat without hearing the motor going! With a quick half hour ride, we arrived safely back in the river mouth. We hooked the boat on and drove home, with nothing to show for it except a stuffed up boat!

With a quick drive up the hill and dropping Lochie off, we emptied the boat and dad rang a boat mechanic in Gero to see if he could figure out the problem, since we were going to Coral Bay in a few weeks. He found that the wiring was done wrong with all motors made in the year 2009. He took it to gero Monday to get it fixed and we’re driving to gero to pick it up in a few days. We’re so lucky we took the boat out for a fish before Coral Bay. Having a boat problem there would have ruined the whole holiday since we only go to Coral Bay to fish the spectacular reefs. With the greatest day fishing I’ve ever had behind me (sarcasm is hard to type!), i began to look forward to an awesome Coral Bay holiday with my ‘cousins’ (dad’s high school friends wife and kids).

Thanks for reading this and don’t worry, I’ll be back!

The Hero of Ages

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*CAUTION – SMALL SPOILER ALERT*
Well, I’m glad this is the last book review. I’ve had a gut full!
The Hero of Ages is a satisfying conclusion to one of the best book trilogies ever. The story begins one year after the events of The Well of Ascension.

The magic metal that Elend ate at the end of The Well of Ascension saved Elend’s life by turning him into a Mistborn. With only one year of experience, Elend attempts to find clues left behind by the Lord Ruler in the form of caverns with large supplies of food, acting as bunkers. Every bunker, starting with the Well of Ascension, had a map showing where the next one is. Each bunker had a specialty; weapons, clothes, crops, etc. The Lord Ruler built these bunkers specially for when Ruin was released. Ruin wants to end the world , and stopping it seems impossible. He is the power of destruction, a force whose ultimate goal is to destroy the world. He hasn’t gained his full power yet because he needs to find his ‘body’ whereas he only has his mind. He secretly manipulates and effects people to do what he wants. He can hear anything anyone says so plotting against him is nearly impossible. Ruin’s opposite God was called preservation. Preservation needed ruin’s help to create humans, so ruin agreed to help them but only if preservation agreed for him to be allowed to destroy it one day. Preservation caged ruin in the Well of Ascension to stop him from ever destroying the world. By doing so, preservation sacrificed the last of its mind and released its body as the mists that spread across the world at night.

Vin is overcome with grief for being tricked into releasing ruin at the Well of Ascension and tries to do everything she can to destroy the destruction God. Later in the book, Vin becomes one with the mists and becomes preservation. She fights against ruin but can’t beat it, their forces are of equal power. She watches helplessly as Elend fights an all out war, with the power of Atium, against the massive army of Koloss that ruin has rounded up. When ruin makes a Koloss kill Elend, Vin loses it and pushes as hard as she can against ruin. Since she is human and humans are part destruction, she successfully send ruin into the abyss. He drags her in as he falls and the bodies of Vin and ruin fall from the sky. Dead. Saved finds the two bodies and reaches into the smoke coming from both of them with either of his hands. He absorbs both ruin and preservation’s godly powers and becomes an allmighty God. He makes spook a Mistborn and sends him books of what was in his metal minds and a book on all the events that happened throughout the series.

And this, my blog readers, is where I finish my Mistborn trilogy book review. I am a big fan of these books and I am on the look out for others written by Brandon Sanderson. Thank you for reading my entire book trilogy review and I’ll see you at the next blog post.