Wind   20 -25 knots SE  60% chance of showers

More wind and more showers, although the showers are more frequent today.

When the tide was low enough we took the dinghy over to the mud flats to check the traps. Both were empty but still had plentiful bait. Left them in 10” of water and searched the creek banks and flats for crabs. Found several small mud crabs sitting in little pools half camouflaged with mud and water but the adult ones were hard to find.

John eventually spotted one in a slight depression, stabbed it with his knife and put it in the bucket.

The rain arrived again so back to O’vive and crab cooking.

After lunch the boys from Bojangles, Back Friday and Moor R & R turned up to go yabbying so we set off in convoy looking for a suitable spot along the northern banks of the inlet. Unfortunately there were hundreds of soldier crabs ( not a good sign) but no yabbies. It was Paul’s first yabby expedition and with the lack of yabbies made him very dubious of the whole process.

 

Morgan had a great time as usual chasing small fish and as we walked we discovered many different stingrays basking in the shallow water. They took off when you got close enough to see their spots and colours. Some were a lovely brown colour with black spots and slender tails and some plain brown with feathery tails, all ranging between a metre and half a metre across the flaps. (I suspect Cowtail Ray and Long Tailed Ray were what we spotted most commonly).

Back to O’vive in yet another squall where it rained fairly heavily for the remainder of the day and well into the night. John watched his Ashes 13/14 DVD , while Jenny made Honey Joys.

Battered scallops with ginger and shallots for dinner. John was sick in the night with bad pain in the right kidney area. He moved to the couch.