Gruesome stuff

Children just don't seem to mind the gruesome stuff these days. When I was a kid I couldn't bare to watch anything too grueseome. Anything with too much gunge and gore would affect me for weeks.
Anyway the weather was beautiful all weekend so we got out and about on both days. On Sunday we too Jess out for a bike ride along the coast. After a stint in Hougton valley playground we turned back home. The Island Bay Aquarium on the seafront was open so we popped in to see the octopuss and for Jess to have time messing around in the touch pool. This is a great place where kids get to handle the starfish, crabs, sea cucumbers and other marine delights.
As we left the Aquarium we saw some local Island Bay fishermen sorting through their catch. The area of the beach where they had moored was covered in large fish heads. The seagulls were swarming around waiting eagerly for some fish innard for a treat. A huge groper fish was pulled out of the boat to be weighed. Jess was transfixed. The fisherman promptly sliced the head off the groper and threw it to the seagulls. Jess edged a little closer to watch the same fisherman slit open the great fish, stick his hands into its guts and slowly remove two human "lung" sized pockets of roe. This was closely followed by the bloody removal of the fish guts and other bits and bobs. Hmmmm time to move on I thought, so after some general family persuasion, off we cycled.
I cheekily looked at Jess and said "fish & chips for lunch anyone?" "Yum yes please Mum" replied Miss. 20 minutes later we were sat in the park in the sunshine enjoying a late lunch of fish & chips. Yum, despite the gruesome scene we had watched not many minutes earlier!