In the morning, I was having my usual morning cuppa and I was
looking out the back of the yacht and saw what I thought was a log. But it was
moving reasonably fast. It appeared to come out of the creek that I set my
traps in. Sure enough looking through the binoculars it was a rather large
crocodile. At least 4 meters. Peter from Novae picked up Leon and I for a
closer look. We managed to get close enough for a long-distance photo before
the croc went under. That was enough for us we got away at high speed.
After breakfast, we collected the crab traps which had nothing
in them and we set off for Gayandah Creek.
Anchored in the creek we quickly set the crab traps on a falling
tide.
At 2 pm I took the dinghies on a croc tour. Unfortunately, as
soon as I got around the corner of the tributary creek the big salty that I
know lives there slipped into the water and no one else saw him.
We set off to do some trawling in the creek and Peter and Leon
went together while I took Judy.
Judy caught a nice Trevally but unfortunately it broke the line
just as we were getting it towards the net.
We went past where Peter and Leon were fishing and they said
there was a 3 meter croc down at the entrance. I dropped Judy off and I went
down to the entrance of the creek and took a photo.
Sunset drinks were on Novae who baked magnificent sausage rolls
for snacks, but as we were leaving the midges came out and attacked us all.
Back on Billabong we seemed to be quite snug with the mozzie coils and the fly
screens up.
After dinner, we went to bed feeling safe. At midnight, we both
woke with little black midges crawling and biting us all over. They were so
small they crawled through the fly screens.
It was a very lousy night.
Note to self : Never anchor up this creek again. It is pretty but only for a midday visit.
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