Week 2 Begins in Bremer Bay

The Largest Site We've Had on the Trip


Today we begin week two at Bremer Bay. It’s been a quiet time for us with Easter and all. Easter has brought lots of campers to the park so there is always a queue for the toilets and showers which is something we are not used to. Also lots of feral children wandering later at night and lots of them have motorbikes and four wheel bikes that they ride out of the park to the dunes.

We did a bit of fishing before the hordes arrived, but even that becomes more difficult in the busier times as long queues form to go in and out of the water at the boat ramps. Most of our time has been spent reading and doing puzzles tho Russ has fished a couple of times off the rocks and once managed to catch us a big, beautiful breaksea cod which was delicious. We’ve also had a good look around the town-it has 4 lookouts at various high points that give really amazing views over the river and bays. The town has one wind turbine on top of one of the lookouts and it was pretty amazing to be able to park the car RIGHT under the blades. Those things are enormous!

Another thing we've had a bit of fun with was making ourselves a smoker we were happy with! They are available from hardware and camping stores for very little cost, but we can't afford the space for more gadgets. We decided our big Scanpan wok might do the trick. Anyhow, first attempt we brined the fish and used the wok with a foil lid on our electic hotplate with so so results. The second time, we rubbed a salt, sugar pepper mix on the fish, put the wok on the BBQ flame and used the BBQ hotplate as a lid. This gave us a much better result. We are smoking herrings over mesquite chips and will keep trying until we get it right.
A First Attempt at Smoking

It’s actually raining quite heavily this morning (Easter Monday) and has been for 24 hours, so we are feeling the cold a bit and looking forward to another day spent indoors! I hate to be a sook, but it’s nice to see some of the campers heading home. Although it’s still school holidays, I’d guess the park will be a quieter by lunch time. The toilets will appreciate that-they have been having a hard time keeping up with the crowds and aren’t flushing properly now.