It’s a dogs life!

Charlie & Pup love it here!

Last MORNING at Quondong Point.

From now on I will not be writing about our plans, not even for the next day, because that is how quickly they change!  I ended my last letter saying we were packing up, heading towards James Price Point, which is further north from Quondong Point.  I am writing this a few days later, back at Willie Creek!

We went into Broome on Monday, to take Puppy to the vet about his bad leg, which he has been using less and less of  lately.  Vet kept him in all day, did x-rays and played around with his leg while he as out to it.  They couldn’t find anything wrong with him, so I’m convinced it’s all just for attention!!  Pup got a couple of injections with arthritis medication, and is on painkillers each night.  We have to take him back to the vet every Monday for the next 3 weeks for more injections.  Hoping this helps him enough to build the strength back into his leg.

This afternoon; after writing this blog. 
Pup telling me loudly to hurry up and catch some fish!  He is feeling much better!!

A mob of Broomie Seawater Fly Fisherman have planned a trip out to Willie Creek next week, so we thought we would met them here.  So it made scents, instead of driving 60+km’s back and forth each day for 4 or more days, we would just come back here.  Willie Creek is close to Broome, so very easy for us to pop into the vets.

The day we left Quondong Point had strong winds and rough, dirty sea.  We talked about staying for the rest of the big tides (best Bluebone fishing), but the wind blow us out!  It was no good for fishing or swimming, so seemed like a good day for moving!   It takes us all day to move, so why not do it on a shitty fishing day, so we are set up and ready to go once the wind dies down again.

We only just had enough time to get our tent up, when a mate of a mate called to say he was almost at our camp, coming for a chat.  Hot and dusty from putting up the tent, we called Beer O’clock!!  No more unpacking got done that afternoon, the gas cooker didn’t even get attached!!  We built a camp fire to keep the mozzies away, so I cooked potatoes in the coals, that, along with a few more beers than normal, was dinner!

The next day our heads weren’t quite right, and the wind was still blowing like crazy, but we wanted to show Robbie the beach, and take him for a little bit of a fish anyway.  Johnno got a little GT on fly straight away.  I got a Salmon on slice, which I kept for eating.  The wind got the better of us and we gave it up, heading back to camp for a coffee.

After Robbie left we read our books ALL day, watching the tide come in, and then go out again, with a few cool down swims in between.  COOL down for sure!!!  The water is much cooler now, than when we were here only 3 weeks ago!  So it’s in to refresh, then out again, none of this laying about in the water for hours like I would do before.

View while reading all afternoon.

Closer View

Hight tide, view to left of our camp: lovely swimming beach!

Closer view

Notice the deep drop off, making it a great swimming hole even when the tide has gone out!

View of our camp, with the swimming beach just past it!

Same beach a low tide: water still flowing out, can still swim in deep hole.

It’s Thursday now, we were up much earlier today, and feeling much better!  6:30am was low tide, and we were on the beach fishing it; after coffee and porridge for breakfast!  I swear the dogs LOVE it here!!  Quondong we were eating heaps of bluebone, they didn’t get much fish to eat.  Fishing off the rock there, meant they had to just sit in the shade and wait.  Here they run up and down the beach all morning looking for there own fish!  Puppies leg seems so much better today, well it did when he was running as if he was a champion grey hound!  Now I don’t know because he has crashed out and not moved all afternoon.  When we catch little fish, which we do lots of here, little Queenies and Trevally, we let them go in the shallow water for the dogs to chase.  I say ‘chase’ very loosely, it’s more like so the dogs can ‘see’ the fish swim off, and then jump around looking for it for 10 minutes, even though it is long gone back into the deep water.

Charlie: Dogs had longest walk/run this afternoon!
They are both so much fitter, so run so much more, but sleep so much more!!

Even though the wind is hindering Johnno’s fly fishing, I’m liking it.  There seems a lot of sandflies at the moment, I’m hoping its just the big tides (biggest yesterday, on there way back down again now), so they will not be this bad the whole 3 weeks we are here.  Anyway, the wind blows them away, or keeps them in the sheltered area’s.  Late afternoon, when the wind dies down, they seems come out again, so I just zip up the tent, or light a little fire.

Fly's Johnno has been tying, while it's too windy to fish!

Afternoon in the tent, hiding from sand flies (waiting for fishing time).
Johnno tying flies, while I'm writing.

So here we are, back at one of the most beautiful place’s in the world, catching fish for the whole family, and doing lots of not much at all! Just the way we like it!!