Down time and dugongs

Hi Everyone, welcome to the blog. Miles and I are dragging the chain, but the kids have been busy. Enjoy.
p.s. turns out dragging the chain is not a nautical saying, and our anchor chain is fine. Not dragging.
p.p.s. That's Garry's anchorage above, our home for the last 2 days. Thick with dugongs. Shy dugongs who don't like to be photographed.

Bribie Island, by Reminy

So close to Bris Vegas, who'da thought?

Mooloolaba, by Malachy

Budi's impressions of Moolooolaba.

My favourite place so far, by Reminy

A short video by Reminy.

Fishing

Fishing

Today I woke up at 6.20am to go fishing.  I woke up Dad and he linked three hooks together because that’s what I saw other fishermen doing yesterday.  Then I got some white pilchards I had used yesterday (and got nothing) then I went to the jetty.  As soon as I got there I rigged my line with a whiting sinker, a rolling swivel, my linked hooks.  Then I put my pilchard on; I put one hook through the tail and one hook through middle, and one hook through the eye. Then I cast.  As soon as I dropped my bait into the water, I got a bite and I waited.  Then I felt a tug and a jerk.  I had a fish.  I reeled it in and it was a yellow tailed pike.  I waited some more as I could see other pike stealing my bait.  Then they were gone and I caught nothing, so I filleted it and it put its skeleton in the crab net.  Then I fried the fillets in butter and ate them with lime juice.