Karumba - Friday 27th April 2012

Sun was out this morning and still a little bit of wind, but all in all an improvement on yesterday.  Up at a decent hour this morning, coffee and omelette's for breakfast.  Threw some washing on, longest washing session in the world - apparently the dial is dodgy and you have to move it manually (eventually we worked that out!).  Temperature right now is about 29.9 degrees, but we have that little wind to keep everything nice.

Right, it's about 12.30pm and we're off to try our hand at the fishing caper again...  Went out to the point place again, along with a number of other anglers - I lost 2 lures and a whole rig and I looked like the white half of the black & white minstrels (covered in a thick layer of sunscreen, but apparently I still looked like I was going red).  No luck there with the fish, so packed up and went down to the "hut" again and there were less rocks to get snagged on.  I had some sort of silvery fish thing chase my lure into shore, but have no idea what it was - probably a catfish knowing my luck and Craig had no luck again.

We were thinking of lunching at the Sunset Tavern today, but when we packed up and looked at the time it was about 3pm, so that idea was out the door.  So, back to the ranch for the moment.....

Dave arrived home from work carrying a big bin of live muddies no too long after, impressive size I must say.  After checking on how we did with our fishing today, Dave told him to grab his rod and he'll show him how to catch one of these alleged Barramundi!!  They arrived back empty handed of course, but the good news is, that Craig actually had a Barra jump after his lure at the shore line and hooked another one, but it shook loose - boy has announced there seems to be some sort of fish that appears to look like Barramundi lurking around in the waters here now and my cousin's decided that Craig is too good looking and has scared the fish away!  Ha ha....

The boys have decided they will try cooking a few of the muddies on coals tonight, some firewood was collected and fire pit made in the back yard.  Also on the menu for tonight's dining pleasure is:  Normanton Rumps for the boys, Chicken Kiev for myself, Garlic Karumba Prawns, Bug tails, Scallops, Potato & Salad - talk about a seafood feast with some meat on the side!!

Great dinner and the crabs cooked on the coals were the final course - I must say the taste of the crabs was magnificent - a little smokey and the crab flavour was enhanced, just scrumptious!

The lads sat around the fire for a bit after dinner, I left them to it and retired to bed with Boris.