21 July 2019
Coffee and brekkie was followed by a walk down along the beach. The tide was coming in, but there was still about 500 m of exposed sand. We explored and found lots of interesting looking shells.
Back at camp, Baker Bill got started on a loaf of cheese and bacon bread, and a few little cheese and bacon rolls. We had a light lunch of the rolls – they were incredible – and then headed down to the beach to try our lunch catching threadfin salmon. Well, we, and the 100 – 200 other people that lined the beach weren’t very lucky at all. We didn’t even get a bite. Oh well. The process is pretty awesome I think. Sitting down, looking out over the water. Bill put together a montage of his 10 minutes of fishing. Photo below. It’s pretty amazing to see so many people here. We are a bit of a way from anywhere else – Port Hedland is the closest town, 2.5 hrs south. And yet there are so many people fishing on the beach, and camping at this caravan park in the middle of nowhere.
After we ran out of bait, we packed up, had the cheese and bacon bread and an ice-cream from the caravan park store for lunch and then Bill and I went for a swim. We took our beers down to the beach to watch the sunset then it was the usual showers, followed by roast venison for dinner, triominos and bed.
Panorama of 80 mile beach in the morning.
Bill after 4 minutes of fishing.
There were cars and people fishing as far as we could see in both directions.
And yet another sunset photo.
Travelling the Big Island 