Days 44-47: fishing and working

 This week has been good and restful. Monday and Tuesday were relaxed getting a bunch of work done and puttering around the house a bit. Trying to get some hours in so I could rest for a few days. Which was good. 

Tuesday afternoon we cruised around town and looked around the James Cook University Campus. It’s a pretty neat campus, and we saw lots of kangaroos munching in the lawns. 

Tuesday evening we got dinner with some of Dean and Jenny’s friends. One of the ladies daughter, was in her 50s, but had spent most of her life backpacking around the world from the sounds of it. She had a lot of stories, and was… a bit of a character. Her interests in traveling were “to go to the most dangerous places cause what’s the point of going somewhere safe”. Pretty much the opposite of my ideology on traveling, but to each their own I suppose. She had lots of stories, that’s for sure. 

Wednesday I didn’t really do much cause I had a splitting headache all day, so I mostly laid around the house in the dark drinking water and recovering. By the end of the day I was feeling much better so I was happy to have a day to recover.

Today Dean and I packed up the boat and headed to the Ross river to go fishing. Dean let me drive around and I’d take him up to the shore to cast the net to catch prawns for our bait. We caught quite a few small prawns, which was co. Is have to take him close to the edge of the mangroves and then right as he threw the net shift to reverse and tow us out slowly so the bet would grab the fish. They were our bait for fishing. We didn’t get a lot of bites, I nearly caught a stingray but it bit off my line, and I caught a small fish, I forget what it was called, it was pretty and silver, but too small for eating, so it got thrown back in. We went to a bunch of different spots, and had no real luck, but it was a good time on the water. I’ll have earned our rib bbq and mango margaritas we are making tonight. 😉