Well, we got our wish! Holiday time arrived and two days in, we went fishing!
I was standing up on top of the sand dunes to take this photo of Anthony and Rochelle getting set up to catch ‘the big one’. I think, by the looks, Anthony is giving instructions!
We had a lovely big camp fire and the enjoyed the beautiful sunset and watched a nearly full moon rise over the dunes … but we didn’t catch a fish that was worth taking home!
We did catch one that Anthony let Hayden reel in – he felt very important! And by the time that had happened, we’d cooked our BBQ, finished our drinks and run out of wood, so we headed home.
Anthony went fishing at Thomas River the other night. Being a school night the kids and I stayed home, but with holidays coming up we’re hoping to spend a few nights fishing with Dad!
It was worth the Boss’s while going to throw a line in the water as he came home with this six kilo ‘Skippy’ – one of the biggest he’s caught.
When the fish hit, Anthony was battling a salmon on his other line and thought that this one was a salmon too. Cursing, he just yanked the line in, not enjoying the fight that the Skippy put up. He’d been hoping for something yummy, not salmon after salmon, like he’d been catching. (The salmon we catch down here, aren’t great to eat).
To his surprise and glee here was a Skippy that didn’t fit into the esky with its head on, hence the lack of a head in the photo!
We had a yummy feed of fish and chips last night, while we watched the Eagles beat the Hawks – all in all, a very good night!
Hang up the hat and out with the rods. I think there’s a fair bit of difference between mustering sheep and cattle and trying to catch fish, but its a brilliant way to relax. Especially when the weather is perfect and the sea is flat.
Our fishing trip consisted of an awesome sunset, a couple of glasses of wine, a BBQ, a stingray, below, and a Mulloway – one of the best eating fish in the sea. In that order!
Now I know I’ve aid that I don’t really like the smell and touch of fish, but I do like eating deep-sea fish or ones like Pink Snapper and Mulloway. Tonight, we’ll be having a feast!
About two hours’ drive from where we live, is an amazing, wild place called Israelite Bay. Brilliant fishing, very isolated (No shops, takeaways and definitely no mobile range!). It drips with history.
The old telegraph station that was used as the main point of contact in the late 1800s and early 1900s and the stonework in the magnificant old building is amazing, when you consider that it was opened in December of 1876.
These Aloe Vera usually only flower when they’re 100 years old… so you know how old they are!
The fishing is awesome out here (now I’m probably letting all of Esperance’s secrets out!). Pink snapper, gummy sharks and even bronze whaler sharks are caught with regularity. Many ‘Esperanites’ spend a lot of their summer holidays here.
I reckon there’s a huge difference between inland and coastal kids, when it comes to being comfortable at the beach! Growing up far from the sea, I barely knew what a live fish looked like let alone tasted like.
I knew they smelled, and Mum ordered it most times we went out to tea and I didn’t like them, but I’d never felt or touched one.
Never really wanted to. And I still don’t. I like sitting on the beach with a book and a glass of wine or beachcombing.
But my two … Hayden and Rochelle love their fishing! Hayden is his Dad’s right hand man when it comes to catching the big ones.
He’ll be there handing Anthony the bait, winding in the rod if dad say’s it okay and he will sit for hours, not moving, watching the top of the rod to see if there’s a bite. He takes his job very seriously!
Both kids have no problem in touching or playing with the fish and love teasing me with them before they throw them back. Once an Inlander always an Inlander! But these two will always love the beach and what goes with it!
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