Wind  under 10- 15 knots  S –SW             Sunny

Lovely peaceful night, woke up to another clear day although the wind is still a little cool. We needed to leave about 9:00 to get through the shallow channels around Boolye Pt and up to Ungowa at the top of the tide and before it started running against us. We hopped in the dinghy to pick up the crab traps that we had left out overnight. Oh dear they had both disappeared, the tide difference was about 2 m and it seems the floats were underwater. We searched for ages but to no avail.

Saw a small turtle (about 40cm dia) covered in barnacles that was floating and couldn’t seem to descend. Apparently if they have swallowed rubbish and plastics it blocks their passages and stops food from digesting. It breaks down and rots and releases gases into the stomach which makes the turtle buoyant so it cannot dive to feed , then it slowly dies. Not a happy site but there was nothing we could do about it.

We decided to stay put today and wait until low tide to search for our traps. John sanded and gel coated the dinghy cradle, Jenny cleaned and washed clothes then John watched a DVD of the 13/14 ashes tour.

At low tide we went in search of the elusive traps. We finally found one( not the good one) about a kilometre north of where we had dropped it. It was out in the deep current and caught against a snag. With repeated tugging John hauled up a very out of shape crab pot with one small fingermark bream and a medium size mud crab. We kept the crab and threw the bream back.

There was no sign of the other pot and after another 30 minutes of searching we had to give up as there was very little fuel left in the dinghy.

Roast chicken for dinner and crab for lunch tomorrow.