Sorry that I missed blogging yesterday, it
was full on afternoon, we went to meet Brent and Leigh’s friends for coffee,
then Leigh and I had to do our camp shopping, and then we went out for dinner
as a belated 40th Birthday to Leigh.
We went to a Swiss
Italian restaurant, called Nick’s, the food was amazing. I was lucky enough to get a doggy bag
of leftovers and had a beautiful Ravioli lunch whilst camping….ahh this is the
life.
Today has also been a
busy one. We woke up this morning
and had to get firewood, do you think we could find the industrial estate at
Tolga? Eventually we found it and
got actual real firewood – not that hippy ‘eco’ stuff we got caught out with
last time.
The drive to get firewood.
We decided to drive
out to our camping spot at Downfall Creek, Tinaroo, early to get the pick of
the spots before every man and their dog turn up. One of the places we staked out yesterday on our morning
drive was already taken (the hide of them, kidding), so we ended up picking a
spot we didn’t really check out yesterday and it has turned out to be a total
ripper of a spot.
We are camping with
Brent and Leigh and their friends Geoff and Nicola. Geoff turned up at lunchtime to set up and Brent, Leigh and
Nicola will turn up after they finish work. We are looking forward to watching the Gargan’s (Brent and
Leigh) set up and we will offer constructive criticism :p.
Shan, Finn and I went
out for a Hobie Kayak this afternoon to put our red claw pots out (we only have
two as that is all the shop had), then we had a bit of a fish, within 15 mins
Shan hooked a thumping Sootie, it was very impressive. I noticed he had a lure with all sharp and clean hooks (not like the
dodgy lure he told me to use the other day!).
After our short lived
fishing session we thought we would do a premature spot check on one of our
pots. I grabbed the buoy and
pulled up the slack rope, and then pulled, and pulled, the pot was snagged on
something! How does a pot get
stuck when you just drop it over the side? Shan and I are currently back at shore working on a strategy
to free the rogue pot. We are
going to head out closer to dark to check them. I will let you know if we have any luck, both catching red
claw and freeing the stuck pot.
While we were milling
around the campsite, I came up with the idea of using a tent pole to retrieve the
rogue pot, the pole wasn’t long enough!
So we will tackle that
issue tomorrow, we have just had
dinner and are now sitting around the fire, which is lovely.
Till tomorrow
The Wanderin’ Watson’s
and some extras.
P.S. Shan also caught
a catfish from the bank this arvo.
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