Fishing

We came very close to packing up and leaving this morning but we're so glad we didn't. Peter and his family were going into Smoky Bay as people around camp had been coming back with buckets full of blue swimmer crabs so we decided to check it out too.
We found them down at the jetty. S was pretty excited to be going fishing and Peter's kids showed him how you pull up the pots and check them for crabs every 5 mins or so. S was so excited when he pulled up a pot and found one in it. There were others also fishing and crabbing and they showed us what they'd caught but the wind was blowing a gale and it looked like rain so we headed back in.
Back at Haslam in the afternoon the wind had picked up even more but Peter was still keen to try the Haslam jetty so S and I went with him. S pulled in 2 more blue swimmers but there were also a lot of small rock crabs that got thrown back. By the end of the afternoon we had 3 King George Whitings and the 2 crabs.

Another family with 3 girls drove in this arvo and we had a nice time just standing around talking while the kids all played.
It's funny that it's taken this long to connect with other travellers, I think it's because of the kind of places we've been staying. This place is so budget that you get a wide range of people, in particular those who live on the road. Some of them don't seem to have much but they seem very happy and stress free. Others, like us, are just taking some time off to see Australia.

I bought some Smoky Bay oysters for dinner from an oyster shed and as I've never shucked an oyster before I found Trevor, an old guy in a few caravans over, and he was happy to show me how.