Not Before Time

Went fishing at Buffalo Creek today with Christine and Neil.  Unfortunately we didn’t catch anything.  Well, Christine caught a catfish, but put it back.  The tide was running really fast today so maybe that’s why we didn’t get anything, although since I’m totally clueless on this then I’m probably talking through my a*se.  We had a lovely morning though.  The sea was fairly rough, but the creek was calm although there was a very strong current.  It’s very pretty

We bought some new sun protection hats this week.  Here’s David in his – very glamorous, no?

These used to be called Arafat hats, but I believe you aren’t allowed to call them that anymore.  They are now known as Frill Necks.  Not sure which name I prefer

We  also saw our first "in the wild" crocodile.  I saw him coming but by the time I’d dropped my rod and grabbed the camera he had seen us and went below the surface only to resurface a few metres away.  David estimated him to be just under 3 metres long.  You can clearly see him in one of the photos, but the other was a bit harder to see so I’ve circled him.  He started heading for a croc trap set up in the creek but another boat came around the bend and he went underwater again and disappeared.  Can’t say I was too disappointed, but on the other hand, it was nice knowing where he was.

We’ll hopefully be going out again next weekend and maybe this time we’ll actually catch something.  You’ll all know about it if it happens.  

The title says it all – this post is all about the boat and fishing – so if you’re not interested then you might want to give this one a miss!

Well I’m happy to say that the boat works really well, and more importantly, it floats really well.  We’ve been out every weekend since we got the motor serviced and I think we’re becoming addicted.  It’s a lot of fun.  Now while the boating has been successful, I’m sorry to say we’ve been total failures at fishing!  We have actually caught some fish, but due to our total cluelessness on what type of fish it is, we’ve let some return to their watery home.  We’ve also caught some that are too small so they’ve been sent home as well.  We were in BCF yesterday so I had a browse through some fish identification books and was all set today – unfortunately I didn’t catch anything to identify.  David got a cod (I think that’s what it was, it had bulgy eyes!) but it was too small, so it got returned.  This fish had the biggest mouth, which was fully open and his gob was stuffed with some other sea creature – not sure what it was, but it was quite spiney.  I thing he was being too greedy in trying to take David’s squid while his mouth was still full and got hooked. 

I forgot to take the camera today – so here’s some photos from last weekend

About an hour after these photos a storm started to come in and the waters were like this

We went to BCF yesterday to buy seats for the boat – those aluminium benches are really uncomfortable even with cushions.  We also ended up buying a canopy!  David fitted them yesterday and we test drove them today – my bum is saying thankyou! 

 Hopefully we’ll get the hang of this fishing thing and start catching something we can actually take home and put on the bbq.  A nice barra, or trevally or something.  There’s lots of good eating fish in the harbour, but obviously they aren’t hungry when we go out.   Need to learn more about this stuff.  And don’t worry, when I catch something it will be posted here – with photos!