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| Last nights Blue Moon. |
Mid-day high tide makes it hard for fishing, and the big tides have proven very unsuccessful anyway. So it really is a day for relaxing, making the most of our last day of internet.
This is how I spent my relaxing day. Sitting by (and recording) the tide as it came in, then downloading and playing with clips as the tide went out.
When we get to Price’s Point on Monday there will be no more service (no more blogs) for 3-4 weeks. Knowing that we would go there next I had planned to write a blog at least every second night while we were in service. Fun stuff like fishing and friends got in the way, so the blogging slipped back.
So here’s a little reflection of our month on Barred beach:
When we first got here there were still lots of Queen fish, little Trevalley and little Mackerel around, we caught plenty the first week right in front of our camp, we had Mackerel curry for a week: Fish Curry blog.
Then the weather changed, the water temperature dropped quickly and all of a sudden the fish were gone! We weren't overly worried, assuming they would be back soon enough. Not so, 3 weeks later we still have to hunt for a Queenie, not at all easy pickings that they were a month ago. What to do when the fish aren't playing the game...change the game!
We knew there would be Barramundi in the mangrove creek, and they would come out and go back into the creek with the tides, we just had to find them. And so we did! Johnno's first Barra for our holiday was caught on fly in the dry season, on the beach!! Very impressive stuff!! He went back the next day and landed 2 more! With a total of 13 barra hooked!! Then as an added bonus he found the bi-catch just as much fun. His first Tarpon caught he wasn't sure what he had on, fighting hard but different than the other fish caught. Once landed he went looking for more, and yes he found and landed them! Now we are talking of getting the big ones in Cuba!! (Just talking until we win lotto!).
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| Johnno wading for Tarpon on the flats! |
The wind has been a bit of a hindrance, making camping in the sand-dunes interesting. I'm just glad it hasn't been too hot, so we were able to keep the tent totally closed up when needed. The mornings and evenings have been cooler than we expected, yes we knew it was going to get cold it just happened faster than we would have liked. On that note: How did it get to August already??? Time is going so fast!! We have been beach bums for 4 months now!! It only feels like 4 weeks!
I've loved the high tides here. I pretended to fish many mornings with a lump of bait out past the waves on high tide, just so I could sit and watch the waves. This resulted in a couple of big shark encounters; The first shark was on balloon so pretty much expected. The second was a Big Ass Shark that took my tiny bit of bait while I was contemplating how much life would change if we won 50 million dollars! We still swim, but are very wary of the dogs. Pup saw a dolphin cruising the shallows this morning and went running down the beach to play with it!!!!
We have seen and heard Whales every night. Although the Eagles haven't been as regular as further up the road we have seen them around, and I even seen a Wedge Tailed Eagle fly over!!!
The weekends are busy here, so a lot of the time the dogs have to be on there leads, they just get too excited thinking everyone is coming to visit them. But mostly they seem to love it here as well. Lots of running and chasing bait fish on the low tides, lots of swimming on the high tides, they are pretty tried all the time. One more YouTube clip: The dogs playing with a crab they found
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| Beautiful Barred Creek Beach |
We Will Be Back!!
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