Author Archives: stuart

Bynoe Harbour

Posted on by

Bynoe up at 4.15am, found some good marks, had a barra 80cm-100cm with a massive wound on his shoulder swim up to the boat and just chill, ran away when I tried to net him.

Got:
Me: 33cm goldie. Not much! No crabs either.

Story of the trip:
The fog!! Was the first ones to the ramp and it was so foggy we let the next 5 cars launch. Eventually we just went and went very very slowly. It cleared at 9am, but it meant we couldn’t hit the rockbar on high 🙁

Boat problems:
Oil light starting blinking. Caused me heartache until this forum pointed out it was just to remind me it was due to be changed. Also about 20litres came out of the bung, but I told myself it was just because I heavily washed it last week and it didn’t drain properly…

Snap:

Leeder’s Creek fishing trip

Posted on by

Headed off to Leeders today, note that I should try to get there before sunrise, because the sun is exactly in your eyes, plus the dust of the road, was very difficult to drive.

Got:
Me: 45cm Queenfish, 2 bucks
mate: reasonable goldie, large cod 60+ cm

Story of the trip:
The largest crab was caught on fishing line! I thought I had a tree or something when I got a glimpse of the crab I slowly lowered him and got my mate to get the net… he plunged it in and I gave my best guess of placing him over it while we pulled it up… as soon as he saw daylight he dropped the bait but dropped right into the net! He was 19cm, but a bit empty.

Boat problems:
Boat was okay but some pinhead (me) forgot to put the clip down of the trailer… how I drove there and launched without it coming off is a mystery but it went bang taking the trailer in. Saftey chain to the rescue!!

Snap:

Trip to Kakadu, Gunlom and some lookouts

Posted on by

5th of July 2014 to 8th of July 2014

Claire and I had secured permits to go to Jarranbarnmi for the weekend, unfortunately a rogue crocodile had forced the Kakadu staff to cancel all permits. We decided to head to Gunlom again, we love it. Did the drive down old Jim Jim Road, was great fun. Got there Saturday arvo and spent it in the lower pool. Spent all of Sunday in the upper pools, GT and Ailsa joined us. Saw a large snake in one of the water pools, that provided a bit of amusement.

Got the fire going on Sunday night, far out the wood burnt quickly. Headed back on Monday and stopped by Gungural and Bukbukluk, Claire didn’t like the walk at Gungural. Liked Bukbukluk a lot better. The trip back was fine, a large tree had fallen across old Jim Jim road, managed to get around by going through the scrub. Okay for Suzi but would have hated to have been towing something.


At the top of Gunlom


At the camp site


One of the lookouts

Kakadu – Ubirr, Maguk, Ikoymarrwa

Posted on by

Claire and I arrived in Mardugal on Saturday and set up camp. Love that campsite, and we found wood easily. We went to Ubirr for the sunset, which is probably our favourite place in the territory. We then headed back for dinner and a few cold ones. There were a few fires on the drive back.

We spent Sunday in Maguk. We noticed that the midgees had eaten us alive, I think this is a common thing in June at any campground.

Maguk was great, there were quite a few bogans with eskies around, which was a shame, but they mostly kept to the top of the waterfall – although the signs indicated that they weren’t allowed there.

On the way home on Monday we stopped by Ikoymarrwa, it wasn’t marked on any maps, and this was the first time we had been there. It took a bit of finding… and the water was freezing!! Beautiful spot though.


Us at Ubirr

Us driving there, I love this snap

Maguk

Paradise Valley 2014

Posted on by

Paradise Valley again this year, the last one that the Gell’s will own. We got our canoeing trip it, it was freezing, I have become accustomed to the NT weather faster than I want to admit.

There isn’t much to say about it, it is always great fun.

Those canoe trips always take it out of me!