Hi Everyone sorry I haven’t posted any blogs lately but we have had no internet or phone service for 8 days as we were hiding in some remote places.

Wind  20 -30  knots SSE   Sunny

Strong wind forecast for the next few days so we are staying here as conditions here are relatively calm.

John, Morgan and I put our 2 crab pots out on the northern shore. It looked ideal for mud crabs with deep mud banks and mangroves on every side.

We took a trip further up the creek with the portable depth sounder mounted in the dinghy and charted all the deep areas . There was plenty of room to anchor quite a few cats, with an average depth of 3.5 metres at half tide.

While John reread Mondays paper and completed another crossword, Jenny and Morgan made apple, date and cinnamon muffins ( well ,Morgan sat and hoped for scraps), it was a very pleasant laid back morning.

At low tide we went 2 kms upstream to a small island with a short sandy beach as Morgan was keen to stretch her legs. The foreshore was covered in small rocks encrusted with oysters.

Most oysters were small but when we started looking, camouflaged amongst the rocks were huge oysters. I’ve never seen them so big. It didn’t take long to get a container full of the larger ones.

Meanwhile Morgan discovered an echidna a couple of metres from the water which unsuccessfully tried to bury itself amongst the rocky clusters. Her paws got sore from walking on oysters so she sat on the sand and watched us.

Checked the pots on the way back only one small blue swimmer.

O’vive was swinging on her bridal quite dramatically due to the opposing wind and tide so we upped anchor and motored further up the creek where we had previously surveyed. Past anchorage F in Patricks Curtis coast. After dropping the anchor in 3.1 mt water at half tide we sat back and enjoyed the peace and quiet.

 

Back Friday and Moor R&R decided to follow and the social hub was relocated to a much calmer and less windier anchorage.

Happy hour with oysters Kilpatrick on O’vive  with Foxs hot sauce turned into a longer session with everybody leaving about 8:00 in a jolly mood. Johns Aberlour Abunadh  whisky might have had something to do with that.

The black hawk helicopter from the military training exercise that had flown over us very low up the creek in the day flew back over reasonably low in the dark. Was Peachy on it?