Australia Day

What a way to celebrate our great country - fishing & picnic with family and friends! We packed up the car & boat and headed off to Miara for the day. Mum had been looking to buy a boat for the last few months and finally brought one last week - very exciting! It was the perfect opportunity to take it for a run. Mum's boat -


Our boat -


Mum, my aunty and cousin went in her boat for the day - there was a lot of craziness happening there! At one stage we looked over and they were chasing a crab around the bottom of the boat! LOL Mum fell over in the boat about 3 times - she's very sore today :( Good thing she didn't fall out of the boat! LOL It must have been that sort of day, cause I fell over too while I was pulling the crab pots in! LOL I also found out how strong crab claws are when one squeezed my finger in the pliers I was using to try and catch it :(

We put the pots in and did some fishing for a few hours, then I went back to the park just as Cathie, Andrew, Mitchell and Cathie's dad rocked up. We had a chat and set up tables/ chairs. Mitchell was running around and exploring, then we took him down to the river for a swim and play in the sand. With Cathie and I both taking pics and her dad filming him, Mitchell must feel like a celebrity! LOL


After we all had lunch together - Cathie & family headed home to watch cricket and we hopped back into our boats to check the pots and do some more fishing. Unfortunately the river was still pretty dirty from the floods, so no luck fishing :( However we were a lot luckier with the crab pots this year - out of the 18 mud crabs we caught we were able to keep 5!! Last year we caught 30 mud crabs but couldn't keep any. Craig doesn't eat crabs, so I kept one and we shared the rest with family and friends :)


Even though we wore a hat & sun-shirt and kept applying sunscreen, both Craig and I managed to get sun burnt :( I think our sunscreen has gone past its use-by-date - so I will have to replace that before the next fishing trip.

Note to self...if you don't want hubby to know that you were poking the crabs with a wooden spoon- make sure you manage to get it out of their claws before he gets back into the kitchen. You can't deny it when there is wooden spoon being waved out the top of the bucket! :)