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!

 

Group Kakadu Trip

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Awesome three day Kakadu trip.

Rowen, Claire and I went down and saw Nourlangie the first night, did some stargazing at Mardugal, before meeting up with the others the next day.

The next day we went to Gubara for a swim and a bushwalk, and onto Ubirr for sunset.

On the last day we had a sunrise cruise and fishing trip at Yellow Water, Chops managed to get an undersized barra, saw some big crocs and Jabiru’s.

Got some really good photos there two, probably my two favourite from Kakadu were taken here. Both got touched up as I needed to remove Claire’s annoying date stamp! Taught myself photoshop for that single reason, otherwise they are totally untouched, so I hope you like them.

 

 

First houseboat trip

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The first time I went down to the Mary River Houseboats was in May of 2012. I can’t remember a huge amount about it except for one important fact:

Chops caught a freshwater barra and it was delicious.

Everyone who claims they can’t be eaten are wrong, at least for this one.

The other thing I remember is that little baby ducks had hatched and were following their parents from one side to the other. Simple enough? Nah, the crocs were at them. The parents would fly to another area to trick the croc into submerging in the wrong area. But then the hawks would swoop in on the baby ducks. The parents would fight them. And the crocs… well you get the idea. About half were making it – the balance of nature I guess. But was David Attenborough worthy.