May 10 Last day in Exmouth after 4 weeks and most of it was spent packing up. We did manage to get in one last snorkel in at Mandu South. Some of the best coral we've seen but quite shallow. For our last night we returned to Pinocchios for another night with great food and our own esky of drinks. May 11 Left a little later than we thought but were enjoying the drive from Exmouth to Karratha through the rain soaked Pilbara country side when we came across quit...

Just had two days of good weather and with Willy Weather warning us this could be the end of it for a while we planned two days of solid fishing. Day one coincided with Pete's birthday so after a night in town at Pinocchios Restaurant to celebrate, we decided the birthday boys best present would be to land a billfish. Consequently after a relatively early start at Tantabiddy we spent about 5 hours trolling the strike zone that had produced our other billfish. It ...

Didn't blog last night. Too depressed after venturing into the pub in town to watch the Crows embarrass us again. Much better day today despite strong winds and drizzling rain. The Cape Range National Park has reopened to Day Visitors so with weather conditions preventing any fishing we decided to investigate the damage caused to the park during the recent floods. The road was a little damaged at each of the creek crossings and the strength of the water was evi...

A hung over Stelleen and a disinterested Eleni left My crew as Pete, Hanno and Carol. Beggars can't be choosers. With Tantabiddy Ramp silted up, fishing was restricted to putting in 2 hours before high tide and retrieval by 2 hours after high tide so with high tide at 1:00pm we launch the boat about 11:00am despite a 15 knot easterly stirring up the Indian Ocean into a mass of white caps. Trolling the famous purple lures at the recommended 7 knots meant we were ...

Haven't blogged for a few days. The aftermath of 250mm of rain in a day or two in Exmouth has hindered our plans somewhat. The Cape Range National Park and associated camping and snorkelling are completely out of action. The Visitor's Centre and Ranger's houses were flooded and the bush camping areas had caravans floating in a metre of water. The road in and out of the park was closed and our preferred launching platform, the Tantabiddy Boat Ramp, has been comple...