It’s Saturday and our last full day at Yardie. Tomorrow we drive the 150ks or so back to Coral Bay where we’ll spend 2 weeks before heading to Perth via the inland route.
Thursday we headed out for what was our last day of fishing. It was a little rough with the biggest swell we’ve fished in while here. A little rough means better fishing though as the fish can’t see us in the boat. We caught a number of CCC, releasing any that were smaller until we had 4 good sized ones. I lost a MONSTER fish that I worked so hard to almost get to the boat before he broke off-we’ll never know what he was now. Not long after though and in the same place, I caught a size (41cm) spangled emperor (the most highly prized catch inside the reef) and just after that, Russ landed a 57cm one in the boat. That’s a big fish on the gear we use. We were able to return all the CCC back, alive to the water after that!
We gave the neighbours a feed and kept the rest for ourselves. I made a delicious Indian curry with coconut milk, tomatoes, whole green chillies and curry leaves (amongst other things) from it for dinner, with leftovers for lunch today.
Yesterday (Friday 18th) was a funny day. It drizzled on and off in between very sunny periods. Russ managed to get all the laundry done, out and dry though which was great. Otherwise we had a quiet day.
I did overhear two men talking outside the van about one of the boats in the park being overturned by a whale just outside the reef. It should be true, as there are lots about this year! I’d only commented to Russ the day before that I’d be scared of that happening if we took the tinny outside the reef on a good day. Obviously it happens!
We are seriously considering coming back for a month next year after we’ve been to Denham-if we come back to the west next year. The fishing here is so good and certainly outweighs the slight isolation of the park.
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