Wind  20 -25  knots SSE   60% chance of showers with sun in between

The wind howled at intervals during the night but dropped on daybreak. The morning was calm and peaceful for a while. Intermittent light showers swept across the anchorage, just enough to dampen us fishermen.

Weather report is the same so we might head off tomorrow as the sea state will be less. It would be nice to move on as Morgan has not been ashore for 3 days now and probably wants to stretch her four legs on something other than boat decks and dinghies. Other than the small beach covered in oysters at low tide the rest of the creek is mud where you sink past your knees. There are two crocodiles reputed to live in the creek but we haven’t seen any.

John ,Rob Morgan and I changed tack this morning, instead of fishing upstream we went downstream 500mts and fished off a rocky outcrop which Rob had advised usually sported a variety of fish. We hardly got any bites except Rob pulled in a legal size flounder. After trying for half an hour we moved upstream to our favourite spot where we had a lively time pulling in bream and crescent grunter.

 

We took home about 7 of the 30 we caught which John filleted and divided between Rob and us.

The remainder of the day was spent alternating between reading and cleaning. The occasional rain squall being handy to rinse off the boat.

John bypassed the controller on the cool box so the temperature now gets down to about 6° then we turn the frig on and off manually. We shall order a new controller when we get to Mackay.

A quiet evening for a change with just the three of us with steak with pepper cream sauce and a heap of vegies as we haven’t had much in the way of vegies lately. Watched the movie Django then retired.