Day 47

19 March 2013

Stayed at Port Wakefield last night at the sleepy little caravan park there. It was right on the river so nice spot!

Pack up was a breeze, so easy we were standing around saying that we must of forgotten to do something! It was too easy! Joel is of course already talking about all the things he can modify....here we go again! Hehe.

We decided to head down into the Yorke Peninsula for a little bit and have a sticky beak around. We went down to Ardrossan, over to Maitland, then up to Moonta, Port Pirie and our final destination was to be Port Augusta but we only made it to Port Germein as had heard some great reviews off Wikicamps that this is crab heaven!

Nice town, nothing to it, pub, general store and bait, that's about it. Oh and the longest wooden jetty in Australia, 1.6km! Headed to bait shop to load ourselves with gear and information ...you can hire the pots from here (which we did cuz our crab pots are illegal in SA) $3 a day to hire, some bait and the locals telling us don't take more than 40 and take a big esky! We were like whatever we will be stoked if we get 1 and really we were doubtful that we would even get that.

You guessed it, to get the crab you have to walk the 1.6km jetty! Off we went, took the rods as well in case crabbing did not turn out well. Dropped the pots over the side of the jetty in about metre of water and no word of a joke you can actually watch the crabs circling the pot and then they get in and you pull em up! Easy as that, we couldn't believe it! In less than an hour we had caught 20 or more crabs and it was a struggle to keep up with the 3 pots we had going at once! We actually stopped after our bucket was full but we could've kept hauling them in! It was crazy, so fun though. After our crabbing arvo we couldn't be bothered fishing and headed back to cook them up!

The park has a crab cooking facility which you can pay $2 to cook up your catch. Some great guys we met on the jetty helped us cook and clean them, and we took over from here and ate them!

There is nothing better than catching and cooking your own meal!

The only question now is....do we stay here longer to get more crabs?!

Carly & Joel

 

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