To the Gulf and Beyond!

It is now June the 1st, and it is pretty well time to move on again. We pull out of Karumba tomorrow morning, heading towards Lawn Hill NP. We will stop over somewhere on the way, probably near Gregory. We could prob get all the way to Adele's Grove, but it would make it a long day as we have a farily big packup to do. The fishing here has not been what we expected, as there has not been a proper wet season for 3 years so the river has not been washed out, therefore the fish are not here. The tides at present only have 1metre variance from low to high, so the water is pretty well not moving. Considering there are only 2 tides (1 x high, 1 x low), that does not bade well for fishing at the mouth.

We have also been hampered by not being able to put the boat in the water do to malfunctioning wheel thingies...that I built. I just had them repaired, so hopefully we can use it in the time ahead.

We have been fishing from the river bank, next to the park, and we have been catching heaps, but none of them are keeper size. We are not alone though, as not many people are catching fish of any size. The only ones we are seeing have been caught with a boat.

I have added some more photos below, but they seem to have a common them...the sun either setting or rising. I am sure I have more photos, but this is all I have loaded on the PC.

I have not seen any of Klaus', so I cannot show you them.

As we will probably be out of internet, or phone, capability in the next week, the blog may be a bit quiet.

I hope you enjoy the following...

Sunset over Karumba Beach

The tides are usually really big here (4-6m) but at present they are very low.

You can see the fairleads (channel lights) that go out for about 5kms. These are to guide the big ships in so they don't run aground on the shallow waters off the river entry.