Category Archives: TIDES – On The Water

Kakadu without the Swimming

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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

Houseboat for Dad’s 60th

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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.

Tiwi Islands – Great Trip

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My boss decided to take us boys out on an overnight fishing trip. Writing this in 2015 it is still the best one that I have done. Got there and fished for Barra for the day with lots of success (by my standards). Stayed the light and had a quick trawl in the morning. Then went goldie hunting.

Got:
Me: 5 barra, 3 good goldies (including a double header on a handline) and tons of reddies
Boss: 6 barra, loads of goldies and reddies
Mate: 1 barra, loads of goldies and reddies

Story of the trip:
Getting smashed by the goldie school! They busted me off and I quickly swapped to my handline, as we wanted to keep feeding squid down there before the school moved on. Nothing like pulling a double header up!