Same old, Same old; But Not!

What a weird but wonderful day!

Queenfish off the Point

Isn’t it wonderful how quickly you fall into a simple little routine when camping, doing the same thing every day, but yet how every day is so totally different.

Yesterday started the same as most days here at Quondong Point.  Even though we have only been here a few days this time, we have camped here enough in the past to have a ‘Quondong Point routine’: Collect bait on low tide, fish the Point on high tide, sleep, read and swim between tides.  We woke up early, relaxing couple of hours drinking coffee, read our books, porridge for breakfast, then we are ready to move start the day.  

Tide was up to the rock so we headed straight there, with our crabs caught the afternoon before.  Johnno likes to have a few casts of his lure, before setting the hand-line up for bluebone, just to see what is about.  Queenies!  Queenfish were about!  Didn’t take long for Johnno to hook up on his new favorite ‘stick bait’, I’m going to have to get one of those.  I cast my Too Deadly lure around the Queenies that were following the one already hooked, got a few good hits, but nothing stayed connected, maybe it’s my fishing ability, not the lure??

Didn’t take him long on the handline until he had a Bluebone on the rocks either.  So we were heading back to our camp before the tide was even turning.

With the tide right up in front of our camp, we couldn’t resist have a bit of a flick around when we got back.  Bit of little Tervally fun right at our doorstep was an added bonus!  Kept one for the dogs lunch, left the carcass on a big rock hoping to get the Sea Eagles attention.  Later that afternoon I had the best timing, walking out of the tent to see him swoop down, pick up the carcass, then just hang there above me showing off!  Beautiful!!  Only had my GoPro in hand, not big camera, so not the best footage, but still impressive just to have him so close to camp!  

It was a stinking HOT midday that drove us to the beach more than the tent yesterday.  We were getting NO breeze at camp, but the beach had just enough to be cooling, and the water was clear and cool, perfect way to cool off from the unbearable heat!  Turned out to be ‘build up’ heat!  By mid afternoon we were hearing thunder and watching the storm clouds rolling towards us.  I jumped on line to check out the BOM site, sure enough, lots of rain heading our way, not that we needed the internet to tell us that, we could see it coming.

Stinking HOT during storm build up

Cool breeze as the storm rolled into camp!

Watching the rain come towards us

We prepared camp as best we could, closed up all the windows, put away camera and computer gear, attached extra guy-ropes in case it got windy, and packed everything away best we could.  Finally I hung out all the dirty clothes and towels, YAH, free washing day!! Haha, just in time, Johnno was getting smelly!  Then we went for a walk in the rain to collect crabs for the next days fishing.  Great end to a hot day!

Collecting crabs in the lovely cool rain

Tent didn’t leak too much, was still a restless night with the wind and dripping…on my head!!!  Lucky it’s a big King-sized bed, so I was able to move from the slow torturous drip (that must have only happened twice, and stopped when I moved, because there was no sign of any drips in the morning!)  Slow day today with us both so tired now.  Weird kind of day.  Overcast, solar panels aren’t working so great, so might not even get to finish this blog.  Sea is COLD, so no swimming today, so totally different from yesterday.

We did walk over to the rock, and had a little fish in the wind.  Johnno wasn’t confident, he reckons Broome fish don’t like the wind.  But we had the bait and I haven’t eaten enough bluebone yet, so off we went.  Sure enough he caught me lunch as requested, so I cooked it as promised.

You catch it Johnno, I'll cook it!  Yah, Go Team Positive Fishing!

Think I’ll finish this tired lazy afternoon with down loading photos for this blog, then go for a walk to find crabs for tomorrows fishing…another day the same as the last, not!

Oh it’s mid-day high tide tomorrow, I’m going to get the Drone out for a fly around. 

....started raining again before photos had loaded.  Another walk in the rain today, same as yesterday.  Loving the coolness in the air!  

I LOVE IT HERE!!