Crabs

Yesterday was one of those rare perfect days. The wind dropped and we were able to put the boat in on day 1 of our stay here in Streaky Bay (met one couple who've been here 10 days and had the boat in the water 4 times). Streaky Bay is beautiful on days like that when the water is so calm and clear you can see the fish and crabs on the bottom and the dolphins cruising along on the top.

We crab a bit differently to most people who go out, drop their pots (4 per person I think) then run up and down and around the pots pulling them in and checking for crabs. We anchor, drop out one pot each and check it every 5 minutes or so-yesterday we caught ourselves 14 big blue swimmers doing that. I find it much easier and much more relaxing because when it's done the other way, I'm the one hauling in all the pots. It amazes me to think we couldn't even get a feed when we were here last time, but yesterday we stopped at 14 as we can't be bothered picking more than that. Last night Russ made his best ever Thai crab cakes for dinner, then we put three packs of picked meat in the freezer. Yum!

After we finished crabbing, we caught 7 tommy ruff which we brought home and smoked ready for turning into dip today.

Our neighbours are nice-Bill and Jean were from Dandenong but sold up and have been travelling 17 months, John and Vi (formerly of Albany) have done the same and have been travelling 5 years. They reckon they haven't seen anything yet.