24th June 2021 Point Samson

We woke to another very windy and cold morning it is starting to get monotonous. 

We spoke with John and Josie the night before and decided to head on up the river to try for a  fish leaving approximately 9.30.

Merv had baked date scones the day before so I took them and a thermos of hot water and Josie brought coffee,milk and cups for our snack attack.

It was still quite windy when we got up the creek, Merv put out the anchor but it kept dragging, as we were waiting for a bite we watched beautiful large white Ibis fishing and numerous other small birds but the best was the sea eagles, they were showing us how to catch fish, there was several pairs in and around the mangroves, they put on a spectacular show with their colour almost the same as the chocolate red rocks and white heads they were a site worth seeing.

We moved several times and the wind dropped a bit around 1 o'clock but the only fish that was caught was a small shark with a tiny remoray by John and a small bait fish by Josie.

We headed back in at 2 o'clock the ocean was still very rough it was even quite rough entering the harbour.

We had dinner in the camp kitchen, Josie cooked some Thai curried fish with rice, the fish was golden trevally absolutely delicious.

After dinner more rowdy games of UNO.

We are having full moons which seem to be making incredible low tides.