Wild donkeys braying during the night, foll morning Alf tries out his helicopter, he's really good at it, taking off and flying about then back to landing it, should have fun chasing old ladies down the road back home. Off next to try the egg beater lure in the billabong, Geoff and I in the boat troll up and down with two lures out (one being the egg beater).. not a thing, try the other end where we caught the Saratoga yesterday… just casting out…nothing.....

Bought new fishing gear from guy named George… underneath a howitzer field gun mounted over shop front on Cavenagh Str. next to the RSL, (also an introduction given to us by Bill at Mary River) got some really good reductions from George and set ourselves up for next fishing expedition, got a new cheap camera , Olympus VR350 all in A$130, (that's card battery and zip up case, only unable to load the disc with the instructions. Have now met up with Neal a...

Stop the night Daly Waters an odd sort of place, bit of an out of the ordinary place to set up camp, apparently it is the overflow campsite for the Hi Way Inn Motel across the road, where we have a few bevies and a meal before calling it a day. Set off early foll morn for Pine Creek, via Katherine ( for lunch stop) and then Pine Creek for the night, a nice meal and an excellent country and western show from two singers, both having just the right touch of come...

Vrilya Point a long way off the beaten track, abt 30k of very beat up track with a beautiful beach at the end of it, found spot for us , another group with 4 bigger boats set up a short distance away, and were off to a flying start in their boats but went far out to the reef, came back with nothing, we went out closer to shore, tide was going out, everything set for tomorrow, good night with a fire,Geoff and I take the boat out mid morning, using our 100lbs lin...

Got our fishing gear out and set it up, boat is launched Capt Alf aboard , motor good starts quickly and off he went on trials , rods aboard with lures to try catch a barramundi, use a shallow driving lure, blade almost flat , anyway no luck. so after a day set off for Cape York. As you know with fishing everything has to be just right,the whole of the east QLD coast has strong onshore winds which is no go for fishermen, the idea is to try the east QLD coast...