Day 158

4 July 2013

Well I know you are all waiting on the edge of your seats to hear about the fishing trip, and honestly I would have just skipped today's blog if I didn't think one of you crazy followers wouldn't have noticed! But anyway here it goes...

Woke up early and after breakfast we decided to do one of the walks from the homestead, really we were just filling in time before fishing! The walk starts from just outside the homestead and is the shortest walk being only 1.5km return. It's through bush but the track is pretty easy to follow and it's not a hard walk. The cockatoo ranges are a great photo op, however I reckon we get a better view of them from where we are camped so wasn't overly impressed.

We got up too early, too excited for our fishing trip, so by this time it was only 9am! We decided to visit Bindaloo Falls which is about 16km up the road, back on the Gibb. There isn't great signage around, but if you see cars pulled up somewhere on the Gibb and they aren't changing a tyre it's more than likely there is something to see. So we managed to fluke finding the falls and again there is pretty poor signage to lead you on the walk but common sense gets you to where you want to go. We were hoping for a swim in the pools but unfortunately these falls hadn't been flowing for a while so the water was quite stagnant and dirty. It was a shame that they were dried up but still worth a look. (Photos are crap, had my camera on wrong setting, oops!)

By this time it was 10.30 so we decided to have a few drinks at the bar before fishing. Stretching the drinks out to 11, Joel noticed a big chess board in the garden, so we had a game. The game was me teaching Joel what each piece did over and over but it was fun!

Back to the kitchen for some chips and gravy before getting changed and waiting at our meeting point for fishing. We were met by Tom who took us in his troopy to our first fishing spot, we were happy because there was only 4 adults on the tour as some ppl didnt turn up. Lines baited and we wait in anticipation....and we wait....hmmm maybe a bite here and there but nothing to write home about.

Next spot, little walk to some plastic patio furniture down on the river! And this time Tom had caught us some livies, so surely we were onto a winner.....nothing! And I don't mean just for us, I mean nothing for anyone. At this stage think Tom was starting to sweat, so we moved back to our original spot and to cut a long fishing story short, I caught a fish that was unidentifiable (Tom had never seen anything like it, story of my fishing life) and everyone else caught nil, zero, nothing, nada!!!

Now fishing is unpredictable, I get it, but let me tell you what we didn't like about this tour.

- the tour was on land and not on a boat, now in their defense we didn't ask the question we just assumed and I blame Paul Wershing for this as on ifish he went to home valley on a fishing tour with an aboriginal guide and it was on a boat!

- the spots we were taken to were not exclusive, meaning any Jo blo staying at the homestead could fish there.

- There was no real guidance, like I expect that if you pay you are sort of paying for fishing knowledge too, you know, what rig works best, bait, rod etc and since we had a lot of time to discuss this as there was no fish being caught I thought this would have at least made it worthwhile!

Basically we paid a lot of money for 3 powerades, a bottle of water and a muffin!

We went back to camp pretty deflated afer what we were hoping would be a great fun afternoon out and something we could both cross off our bucket list. The elusive barrumundi remains elusive and now it's steak for dinner!

Happy birthday to Chris @ Pinnacle, sorry but we have no phone or Internet so couldn't MSG you on the day!

Carly & Joel

 

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