Cape York - Tuesday 30/8/11 & Wednesday 31/8/11

Craig & Jim went off for an early morning fish - Boris & I got to sleep in.  Just a quick breakfast this morning of cereal & coffee, we were packing up and heading back into Weipa for 2 nights.
We started out of Stone Crossing about 10.50am, took some action shots along the track.  The first place we got out to take some photo's of the cars coming through, Ev came across a couple of dingo pups in the middle of the track.  She was a bit concerned, so I told her to stand up tall and they shouldn't bother us and they wouldn't hang around with the cars coming through anyway.  I realised we had interrupted their breakfast, I saw a freshly killed wallaby in the middle of the track.

It only took 1 1/2hrs to get back out to the main road to Weipa - track wasn't any less rough though. 

Arrived at Weipa Caravan Park about 1.30pm and booked into a shady powered site this time, still over looking Mission River.  Jim and Ev setup camp next door to us, which created a nice little courtyard between the 2 campers.  Craig's concerned our camper floor doesn't come down to full extension, thinks the linear ram may need adjustment (he didn't have time to adjust it before we left).
Jim rang around a few fishing charter people to try and book a charter for tomorrow, but no luck.  So the boys went to plan B and hired one the caravan parks tinnies for tomorrow instead.
Craig had a chat to the fellow we met the other day and got the tide times and somes tips on where to go fishing - I think.
The boys got their fishing gear ready after dinner and Jim decided we all needed some chocolate to help them get organised.  Again it was a late night, turning in about 11pm.

 Wednesday 31/8/11 - Boys are up early, Jim & Ev have already been to the bakery to get bread for their lunches today, which Jim was already making - Craig felt
a bit useless because Jim had everything organised, so took himself off to get the safety talk they had to have before they could take the boat.

Jim unloaded their camper, so Ev had a home for the day and 8.20am off they went to hook up the tinnie and go catch some fish....

Now my day today is not exciting - a few loads of washing to do, then off to the shopping centre to get some mangoes & mushrooms to go with our fresh fish we are eating tonight (hopeful aren't I). Ev & Boris came for a walk to the shops with me, they waited in the little park outside and unfortunely both of them got covered in tree ants (poor Boris had them all of his nose - Ev had to help him get them off). She then decided it would be safer to wait at the front of the shops - wrong, 3 stray dogs came around taking an interested in Boris, poor Ev was so nervous. A young man chased the dogs away. Boris & I walked back to the caravan park (he was very keen to get back to the camper) and Ev took a 1/2 hour walk to the local Op Shop, it was too hot to make Boris walk that far. I also wanted to catch up on journal writing & download photos from the camera. As I said nothing exciting in my day, today.

Boys finally got back about 6pm and wait for it - they caught fish for dinner!!! Black Bream, Spotted Grunter, Cod & Catfish (but they threw the catfish back).

So we had fresh fish & wild rice salad for dinner - yum.

We had a maximum today of 36.3 degrees.