Pulled the crab trap in this morning and found another three small mud crabs and a small estuary cod. They all went back. It seems a lot of the muddies have missing nippers, I guess the estuary cod like to eat them, especially when they have them cornered in a trap. The bait was fairly smelly so I replaced it with a lovely fresh skeleton we have had in the freezer since Gladstone and hopefully will get some bigger crabs.

I rode the pushy to Whitworths and Tackle World to purchase a few items including a new GPS to replace the one that isn’t working. The ride back was a bit hard into a headwind as my basket was grossly overloaded putting a fair amount of weight on the front wheel.

Met up with Adrian, Deanna and Dustin as they had taken our gas bottle with them the other night to be refilled as there is no refill services at this marina. Bad news for them today.  Kay had badly broken her leg that morning on the bank of the Mitchell River in a very isolated spot and had to be airlifted back to Cairns Base hospital in a helicopter.

I checked the trap  before dark and there were five more blue swimmers in it and but only four were  worth keeping and over the legal size of 11.5 cm so I put them on ice until more turned up hopefully in the morning.

Morgan and I went for a long walk along the inlet past the new cruise ship terminal and up to the docks. The riverside restaurants were overflowing musicians were performing and everyone appeared to be enjoying themselves. Since we were here in 2005 the cruise ship terminal has had a major face lift and its heritage listed wharf and shed is  surrounded by landscaped gardens and various statues and tributes. Chinese takeaway for dinner which was very tasty.