Crabs

Yesterday we braved the wind and went out crabbing again from Monkey Mia. We came home with 12 beauties which we divided between ourselevs and neighbours John and Jan (Carmel and Ron got the last ones). We froze the meat from three and are having baked garlic crab tonight (one of my favourite crab dishes).

We had better luck than the three men we met as we launched the boat. They were just coming back after loosing 10 pots and 15 crabs to the fisheries inspectors for crabbing within the recreation zone that surrounds Monkey Mia (800 metre arc with the jetty as its centre apparently). They had to go and video a statemnt to be shown in court as they can't be there. Lucky we met them as we didn't know the rule although we haven't crabbed in that close fortunately.

It amazes me we'd never tried crabbing out there before, but I suspect it goes back to when we were new at it and I wasn't quick enough hauling the pots up. I feel very skilled at it these days and can tell by the weight of the net if I have a crab in there and hardly ever loose one out of the pot as it comes up.

Tonight we are going to the bowling club for a "social roll" with all neighbours around us, tomorrow we are fishing, then having a casserole tea and sunday night it's a roast at the bowling club. I tell you what, this life is all go ;-)

We got a yesterday message from friends Ron and Irene who we met at Molloy (near Augusta) 2 years ago, and they will be in Coral Bay the two weeks we are there. It'll be great to see them again as they are a really nice couple that we had a lot in common with. Ron made me laugh when we first met him and he told me I was very nice for a Victorian!!!!!