I recently bumped into an an old work-friend and we got to talking fish.

It turns out he spends all his free time on the water, too.  It also happened that, a week or two after our chance encounter, our days off aligned and we were able to meet up for an early morning low tide.  With a second person to help, I lugged out the inflatable boat and we had a fairly productive day paddling between the bays and channels of the reef.