Day 27 - Hervey Bay
Thursday, 18 August 2011
After breakfast we strolled down to reception to look at what trips are available. There are lots of different operators offering trips to see the hump back whales as this is the whale watching capital of the world. They all offer something slightly different for around the same price. After some family discussion, we have decided to go on a sailing trip on a catamaran with an experienced whale watching skipper. The bad news is at it will be another early start and we will be picked up at 06:55 tomorrow morning.
So, what to do today? We decided to go fishing from a boat but when we arrived, the skipper hadn't turned up and there was only one elderly sailor running the trip. He wanted to take us out to the boat on an old tin motor boat. The water was choppy and we decided that it wasn't safe, so we had a refund and hired some rods and went fishing from Burrum heads which is near Hervey Bay. We planned to cook our fish on the BBQ and took a big bucket to bring it all home in. We took squid and worms as bait and spent a fun few hours fishing. I'm not saying we didn't catch any fish, but we had chicken curry for tea. Not a bite! Still, it was fun. Some Pelicans arrived as if to mock us so we moved on.
I tried more fishing later, this time from the pier in Hervey Bay. I caught one toad fish.
A quiet evening back at the ranch, looking forward to tomorrow's trip.
 | Cabin at Fraser Lodge [Map] |  | Roundabout at Hervey Bay [Map] |
 | Anna getting ready to fish [Map] |  | Fishing [Map] |
 | Still nothing [Map] |  | Pelicans Arrive [Map] |
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Anna looks better today she looked a little tired before, I thought it might be because of all those Rolf Harris tunes, never mind not catching any fish - Ron doesn't either.
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xx Mom
Ask your dad about this poem girls.
ReplyDelete"I'm going fishing - don't come near.
Don't you know that the fish might hear.
He thinks I'm playing with a piece of string,
He thinks I'm another sort of funny sort of thing.
But he doesn't know I'm fishing... no he doesn't know I'm fishing.
That's what I'm doing - fishing!"
It goes something like that from memory and hearing it 100000 times a day many years ago.
Great blog - but I'm now signing off as a commenter as we are flying off on our hols in a few hours.
Will speak when you get back - safe travels!
Sue
xx
We're having fish for supper tonight caught straight out of the freezer. Keep up the good work on the blogs. Hope you see lots of whales tomorrow
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