Went fishing at Leeder’s Creek with James and Greg, they both got some decent Blue Salmon and I got a black tipped reef shark. Nearly had a thumper of a salmon but James wasn’t able to net it.
Black tipped Reef Shark is a good eat, though very difficult to fillet, they blunt your knife so quickly!
Great fun this weekend. 8 of us all hit Corroboree Billabong on the houseboats. Chops took his boat and we got some good fishing in. Only one keeper Barra that he caught, but I got a good Saratoga.
A lot of funny moments. A lot of bugs. Good times!
Not a lot to do in April in Kakadu, most things are closed due to the wet season, and camping is very difficult. We took a flight over Jim Jim which was flowing with its full fury.
This is generally an camping and fishing blog, but whenever I travel overseas I will tend to blog the more eventful outdoor-ish events.
As this was a mostly urban related trip, there were only a few things that were sort of outdoorsy.
The first was looking at the Cambodian temples, this one in particular. This is one of the few that were never restored, consquently it was my favourite, as the jungle has nearly swallowed it.
Overall it was a great trip, not as good as Fiji had been but we really enjoyed the tour – we’d never done one before 🙂
We decided to go down and stay at Edith Falls, it was in the build up, but we had plenty of water, and an easy accessible swimming hole, so we figured we’d be right.
We arrived and set up then spent the rest of the day in the lower pool, was a lot of fun. I really wanted to do the bushwalk and see see pool, but the trip (from memory) was about 10km. We took plenty of water, so much it hurt my back and I was drinking it just to lighten the load. I got a little concerned that Claire wasn’t drinking enough, and tried to get her to take more. The swim was great (if a little spooky – I am sure it was safe but that upper pool just LOOKS like a croc’s natural home) and we walked back and did the middle pool. The middle pool really is the best one, it’s such a nice spot.
I am sure you can guess the end of the story, nearly as soon as we got back to camp Claire wasn’t feeling that well and wanted to lie down. Soon I had packed up and we were heading back, stopping regularly for her. It just goes to show that despite drinking 2-3 litres of water and a few diet cokes on that trip, you just cannot underestimate these conditions.
