Today we got up in the morning, had breakfast and started packing up the caravan. I coiled the water hose and Dad did the electricity cable. My sister did the legs and helped me with the wastewater hose. After a while we were driving the 160 km to Kalbarri. The drive was uneventful and passed very slowly.
When we arrived at Kalbarri we found the caravan park and checked in. While Dad did all the paperwork my sister and I had a look at a Cockatoo in a cage. The cage didn't look like a cage though. It was about 3 metres high and 9 metres long. There were two laminated sheets of paper next to the cage. On these bits of paper there were the details about the Cockatoo. One of the sheets said that we were allowed to feed the Cockatoo and what her favourite foods were. On the other sheet it said that the Cocky's name Fred, short for Fredricka. It said that we weren't to poke things through the bars of her cage. We discovered that she spoke to us. We said "Hello Fred" and Fred squawked "Hello" back at us.
After Dad came back out we drove to our site and set up. Dad and I rolled out the awning and took care of all the electricity and water needs. Then we had lunch. After lunch I changed into my shorts and T-shirt and Dad, my sister and I hopped in the car. We drove to the caravan park reception and got the good oil on the local fishing spots. While Dad was in the office my sister and I said hi to Fredricka. She said "Hello Fred" back to us. After that we drove to the local tackle shop and bought some bait. Then we drove to the jetty where we set up our rods. I put the rig on that I had made up yesterday and baited it with some squid.
We then walked out on the jetty to find that a bunch of excavators were digging the place deeper. We fished off the other side of the jetty. I had barley let my line hit the bottom when the fish started hitting my bait. I reeled up a small 10 cm Fingermark Perch. I re baited and had barley let my line down when a 10 cm Yellowfin Bream got itself hooked. I let my line down again and started catching Tailor. I caught so many Tailor that they wore my line right through and bit my hook off. I walked back to the car, tied on a new hook and walked back to Dd and my sister.
Meanwhile my sister had been catching all these Tailor as well. Just before I left for the car she hooked up to a big fish. It turned out to be a 30cm Golden Trevally. Not all fish under a jetty are small! My hook didn't get bitten off again but I soon changed to a silver vibe that Dad had bought yesterday. Dad was catching fish on it but had taken it off and replaced it with a silver chink of metal that we use for Tailor. I chucked on the vibe and gave my sister the bait rig. She had lost her hook to a particularly aggressive Tailor which swallowed the hook and bit throughout the line. These Tailor were only 5-15 cm long so their teeth went so dangerous.
My sister sister started catching Tailor again and I caught a small Golden Trevally. These fish were so greedy that they would take the lure just as it was coming out of the water. I managed to catch the biggest Tailor of the day which was 20 cm long. We threw it back and after 3 hours of this fun we headed back to the caravan. Altogether we caught some 50 fish and we were very happy with our catch rate.
When we arrived tab the caravan my sister excitedly told Mum all about the fun we'd had. Mum got out a pack of chips and weave and drank for a bit. Then I made another bait rig and Dad made a wire trace rig for beach fishing. Then we drove to Chinamans Beach to do some sunset fishing. The locals say that Sunrise and Sunset are the prime times for fishing. When we arrived at the beach we fished for an hour and caught nothing but a small Golden Trevally that was about 30 cm long. I started casting a metal lure for Tailor just after Sunset and caught a fish in the third cast. The Tailor was no longer than 17 cm and was soon swimming away. Two casts later another Tailor had hooked itself on my lure. this one was about 15 cm long and was also released.
After that we headed back to the caravan and had a shower. After a very nice, warm shower we had dinner. Dinner was stir fried dumplings for me and Lentils and Noodles for the rest of the family. After dinner I wrote the blog. After writing the blog I had dessert and went to bed.
Oggi siamo andati da pesca.
Ho preso 25 pesce.
Sono molto stanco.
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