This year we did the canoe trip down to lake glenmaggie, unlike our usual route
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Fishing in Funnel Bay
Matty D was up for holidays, so me, Judda, Andy and him went out in funnel bay to do some bottom bashing. Just a short session, we did pretty well. I nearly got my first legal coral trout… 37cm, only 1cm off!
My 37cm fella
The boys hard at work
First Airlie Fishing Trip
This was an interesting one! Judda’s motor had been in the shop forever so we decided to go to a remote creek, launch and use the tide to drift down and back. We thought it would look bizarre, having a motorless boat, but when we got there the ramp was so muddy it was impossible to use…. unless you had a motorless boat!
One person had actually removed theirs so they could launch, most turned away.
We got a lot of Bream, this was back when I was a Victorian at heart and was really impressed by Bream.
Got some crabs too, Judda made me handle them… I had youtubed how to do it, but obviously not very well as they took a notch out of my finger!
Fun on the Great Walk
The Great Walk is a trip in airlie, 33km from memory, an amazing bushwalk where you come out right in the middle of town.
I saw a massive python sunning itself on the trail, I threw a stick near it to wake it up! It saw me and got scared and left.
I also remember dropping my camera from the bridge into the river, fortunately it was shallow and a shockproof waterproof camera.
I used to be skinny!
Sea Kayaking around Shute Harbour
We got there and had a practice, he trusted me with a single kayak (everyone else had doubles) which I thought was interesting. Just because I was an agent in the area suddenly I was a good kayaker, despite never having done it before? Is ‘kayaker’ a word?
Anyway we kayaked around for a bit, it was good fun powering along trying to keep up with the instructor and the doubles, they were going at a leisurely pace and it wasn’t too hard to keep up, but I got a semi-workout from it as well. Although it could have all been in my head since I wasn’t feeling great. But we went out to an island and played around there for a while, before going back. The instructor was telling everyone how this girl he knows was kayaking up the east coast or something, and it was starting to sound like a good idea for me. Just got to get a spare $5k to spend on equipment (read: it will never happen).
