Josh and I went for a walk up to
the point this morning and Sami rode her scooter and Zoe was on her penny
board. We stopped into a small café for
coffee and morning tea and just a bit of relaxing (as usual). After heading back to the van, Josh finished
some final touches to the boat and finishing gear and we were ready to take the
boat out to catch dinner. First up we
stayed near the shoreline but after a while here we hadn’t caught a thing so
went on the move. Josh steered out
towards the our channel and stopped about two markers out and anchored
here. Zoe was whinging about not wanting
to fish but we talked her into just throwing a line in. And lucky we did, she was first to catch
something. After sitting out here for
well over an hour, Zoe had caught 7 fish, Sami had caught 4 and I had caught
3. Josh was last with only 1 fish but
his was a catfish instead of a grunter like the rest of us and his was the
biggest (but not by much). We didn’t
keep any of the fish that we had caught as we believed they were probably all
too small but we all had a lot of fun out there today. After pulling in the boat and putting it away
we headed for the pool for a swim and back to the van for an early dinner. After dinner we walked back to the Sunset Pub
just in time to see the sun setting.
Unfortunately, there was a big ship out in the Gulf passing by right at
the time of enjoying the sunset. Zoe and
I had our Parra jerseys on tonight as Parra was playing the Dragons. No need to mention as you probably already
know, Parra lost. Sami even wore her
jersey and they too got smashed the night before. We had a great night just enjoying a few
drinks and playing darts with the kids at the pub before heading back home for
the night.
The following morning, Zoe went
to reception with the laptop for a while to play Moshi Monsters and then Josh
took them for a ride on their scooters, etc again. I spent the morning having another go at
making sushi rolls (I still have trouble getting my rice to stick
together). After lunch we took the boat
out again to try luck. Again, we caught
lots of little fish (although I’m sure some were over the length limits and we
could have kept) and threw them all back.
The tally for today was Megan 7, Sami 4, Zoe 3 and Josh 2. After running out of bait we packed up the
fishing and went up the Norman River to see if we could find our first wild
crocodile – but again no luck. We took
the boat in and while Josh packed it all away, us girls all went for a dip in
the refreshing pool. We were invited to
our neighbours van tonight for a farewell drink. Jan and John had spent a few months here (as
do many others) and were packing up and heading back home to Moloolaba tomorrow. They had many of their Karumba friends around
(about 30 in total) and were nice enough to invite us along too. It was a lovely night chatting to all these
new friends as well as learning a bit more about fishing – may be one day we
will return to try and catch our first Barra?
The kids spent the night in the van watching a few movies, something
they haven’t done much of lately.
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