3rd November Pancake Creek to Bundaberg

Up at sparrows, which for us is even before they get up at 4am and on the road so to speak by 4.45am and sailing is supposed to be relaxing!!!!!!!!!

Pancake creek was a delight, beautiful little bay well protected with sandbars all around and a lovely beach with Palm Trees. Went ashore after navigating the channel to get into the inside anchorage to set the crab net amongst the mangroves, before wandering around ashore.
To our surprise after leaving the beach and walking a few paces inland a whole mars like vista opened up before us. A vast area of dead trees where it looked like the salt has been seeping up and killing the trees along a strip adjacent to the shoreline. The other interesting discovery was the Sea Eagles nest in one of these dead trees. Spent quite some time sitting very still to watch the activities and was rewarded with a bird landing on the nest and then got a great shot of it departing with a fish in its claw.

First morning was one crab in net (2inches long) so tossed back and then the next time we had 5 in the net but alas also too small to keep.

On our journey to Bundaberg hooked two Mackerel and managed to land the second one which was quite a size, nearly 1 metre long. So filled a huge container with fresh fillets and cooked one that night . It was delicious, and only took me 3 and ½ months to catch, but well worth waiting for and most needed as supplies were getting low.

TESTRA CARD PACKED UP SO HAD TO WAIT TILL COFFS HARBOUR TO PICK UP NEW ONE AND GET BACK ON LINE……….AND NO WE HAVEN’T SUNK!!!