We’ve been back in Denham a week today, and I have to say it’s a very different place from the last time we were here. It’s school holidays now and the majority of people here are in tents or pop tops and have children with them. There are a few tinnies and a few boats a bit bigger than our tinny, but no serious fisherpeople like Brice. It gets too windy to get out in the bigger boats and is really starting to get warm-round 30c most days.
Because of the wind, we have been fishing off the beach near Monkey Mia twice. I have never caught anything doing that so I was pretty happy to catch a couple of nice sized yellow fin bream and we caught quite a few whiting both times (some of them very good sized) and Russ caught a flat head. Our two fishing sessions got us 3 feeds.
Yesterday the wind dropped and we were finally able to put the boat in at a place Russ and Todd had been to-Eagle Bluff. They found a channel with fast moving water and were able to bring us home a couple of nice pink snapper from there. Yesterday we found the channel, moved off it then couldn’t find it again! We caught about 50 undersized pinkies which was lots of fun but were just about to give up and go back to the butcher for something for dinner when Russ caught us a nice 54cm pinky. A fish that size is more than enough for the two of us so we ate him cooked on the BBQ last night with chips and salad and the rest of him is being made into fish cakes for dinner tonight.
It’s been pretty quiet socially here, so it was nice to have our neighbours stop by for a drink and a chat after dinner. They are really funny, friendly couple from Perth but left today as Gill’s deputy principal died (52yo woman) and is being buried tomorrow. Gill is a year younger than me, has had 7 children, 5 grandchildren and only retired 3 years ago from the Perth to Rottnest swim-something she’s done many times. It was quite a late night for us last night so today is just going to be a quiet one. There are a few clouds to ruin the beautiful big blue sky too.
I did forget to mention we had a really nice day out driving 100ks back towards the highway and into Hamelin Pool where we saw the stromatalites (thought to be the oldest living organisms on earth) and the old telegraph station. On our way home we called into a few of the bays, inlets, caravan park and camping grounds along the road to Denham. The stromatalites don't do much, but it was a nice day out once again.
A lot of stomatalites not doing much
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