We went down here hearing how the river had flooded and you now launched from the road. It had gone off earlier in the week, we didn’t know it at the time, but now the reports were that the Daly wasn’t delivering anymore. We spent the day drifting up creeks and cutting the motor to float backwards. All of a sudden bang! my Zerek Prawn delivered me a 63cm barra. No other bites or any signs of life for the day, just the one fish… worth it!
Spent the week in Hydeaway Bay for a wedding, was a great trip. A few boats hanging around, including a cat, plenty of fishing and crabbing.
No fish were caught but we got heaps of mudcrabs, and tons of oysters. There was a small island that had basically been untouched, and we could pop over there and get our bag limit, and bring them back for everyone.
Some highlights include getting stuck on the sandbanks and getting to push a boat, some captain (who was also getting married) allowing his crew to through out 10 crab pots completely collapsed, and a bonfire on the beach ‘let’s try to run as far as we can up a palm before we fall off’ contest.
Good times!
Fishing in Queensland, love it!
Swimming off the catamaran
Fishing at sunset
We went to Kakadu for the night with Claire’s parents. Managed to see Ubirr, Yellow Water cruise, and Nourlangie. We stayed in the crocodile, so technically we did swim, but it was the pool – not quite the same thing.
The first night we went to Ubirr but it was very cloudy and we didn’t get a sunset. The second day we got up early and went to the Yellow Water cruise, and later went to Ubirr again, this time the sky was clear and it was a great sunset. That night was amazing as it was the night of a supermoon, which was rising directly behind the sunset.
Sunrise to the front
Supermoon behind us
Dad was up in Darwin for his 60th, so we decided to surprise him with this houseboat trip. If you live n Darwin you definitely have to do a trip out here, the wetlands are stunning. We got to have a fish, but didn’t get any barra. Fishing is really difficult in Corroboree Billabong, at least it has been since I arrived in 2012.
Highlight was getting (someone else’s) fishing line wrapped around the prop, which took a while to sort out, and course we were stuck against the bank after that. We somehow managed to get free by pushing a broom against a tree, this pointed the point around enough that we got the houseboat moving.
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!
