After setting up and catching up on the washing (yes, again!) we walked the short distance over the dune to have a look at the beach. Wow ... we have never seen so many people fishing. As far as we could see there were people and cars, and believe me, we could see for a long way in both directions. No-one was swimming, we think that was because the shallow water had a lot of sand stirred up in it making it impossible to see the bottom. They do also catch the odd shark there. The wind dropped out early afternoon and it became a pleasantly warm day, so Rick spent quite a bit of time cleaning some of the red dirt off the Navara.
Tuesday was another lovely day once the wind died down mid-morning. We went for a walk along the beach talking to quite a few of the fisher people. No-one seemed to be catching anything, but then we spotted a guy pulling in a large threadfin salmon. Apparently he had only just purchased his new rod at the caravan shop that day and was trying it out - it obviously worked for him. His mate was a bit of a novice too and tried to help bring the fish in by wading out into the waves to meet it with a gaff... not a good idea, as the fish changed direction wrapping the line around his legs and knocking him over! They eventually managed to get it to shore and get it unhooked. While we were still there, he cast out again and within minutes had another fish. This one took quite a few minutes to bring in and turned out to be half the size again of his first one.
After all the fishing excitement, we headed up to the shop to have a look at a photo display of the damage caused to the park in 1999 by tropical cyclone Vance. The park was almost flattened beyond recognition and many of the trees and palms still bear the scars.
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| Looking towards our site at the 80 Mile Beach Caravan Park |
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| All the fisher people on the beach |
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| 2 Nice Threadfin Salmon and two happy fisher guys |
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