Lucky Bay Day 3

Today was another rest day. I woke up at 6:00 AM and read for a bit. Then we all got up and Mum and Dad made a lovely breakfast of Baked Beans and fried eggs. After breakfast Dad and I got our fishing gear ready. Then Dad went off to chat with some people that were across the road from us. They live in a motor home and are renting out their house. They travelling for four years. While Dad was chin flapping, Mum, my sister and I read our books outside in the sun.

While Dad was still talking, a really friendly Kangaroo hopped straight past Mum and my sister who were sitting right near the bushes. Mum and my sister nearly got a heart attack. It stopped just around the bush and looked at us. The Kangaroo returned after a few minutes to stare at us and it took a liking to me. Mum thinks it was following me around because I was holding our camera and the Kangaroo thought that it was food. I was taking some photos when the Kangaroo jumped over the wooden barrier and strait into our campsite. Soon it was under our awning looking for food. Then it started to look at our towels that were hanging up to dry.

At that point Mum said "Shoo" and the Kangaroo started towards her instead. I was snapping picture after picture of the Kangaroo. Its not very often that we see a Kangaroo barley 1/2 a metre away. I asked if we could pat the Kangaroo but Mum said no. Pretty soon this Kangaroo was getting to close for comfort to Mum. I got a good photo of the Kangaroo standing about 1/2 a metre away from Mum and staring at her. After a while it lost interest and hopped away to where Dad was still talking. Dad loves a good chat, so do most other people and these people were really having a good time yakking on with Dad. After hopping through the other peoples campsite the Kangaroo hopped into the surrounding bushland.

When Dad finally finished chatting we went down to the beach and started fishing. On the first cast I saw about seven or eight Salmon following my lure. They were pretty big too. After that though we didn't see them again. Dad reckoned that he saw a school of whiting in the wave. We didn't catch anything all the time that we were at the beach. Eventually we started heading back up to the caravan to have lunch.

When we arrived at the caravan Mum got lunch ready while Dad did some work on the fishing gear. Lunch was a great meal. We ate wraps and rice cakes with avocado, cheese, cucumber, tuna and mayonnaise. After Lunch Dad and I went fishing again, but this time off the rocks where we usually fish. Dad had made a really small hooked bait rig to catch us some live bait.

I tried to catch the live bait while Dad tried to entice the bigger fish to biting on the big surf rod. The little fish that I was trying to catch weren't scared of the float. They pulled the float under the water and swam off with it. The trouble was that the fish wouldn't swallow the bait. After a few hours of feeding the fish we gave up and headed back to the caravan for dinner.

We started packing up the caravan. Mum and Dad put the awning away and I cleaned the bait knife and put all the fishing gear away. Then we went inside for dinner. While dinner was cooking I started writing the blog. Then we had dinner. For dinner we had Spaghetti Bolognese and noodles. After dinner I finished writing my blog and went to bed.