Picked up some bait, got the gear ready, and a picnic, headed out onto the lake for the day.
The lake is huge, if you didn't set your gps when your were leaving it would nearly be impossible to find your way back, there is countless numbers of islands and rangers that all look similar at a glance.
It was fantastic being out there, there was a bit of wind ehich made a little chop, but nothing too bad.
We found a sheltered little area that we went into to try to catch some live bait, it turned out to be tricky as the small silver cobbler kept beating the bait fish to the hook.
It was a lovely area lots of different birds.
After awhile we went out into the area which was the original ord river to try to catch a big silver cobbler, unfortunatly we didn't have any live bait, so no luck just smaller ones.
It was explore time, we headed quite a distance and found another sheltered area, we tried fishing, only small ones again, but there was a crocodile in there, he left the bank when we went into the area, we were hoping he would go back out onto the bank so we could get a photo, he just layed in the water and watched us.
We did see 2 other crocodiles swim past.
There were a number of different birds about, a sea eagle was one of them flying about watching us, we had a small cobbler that had died, so as we were about to leave, we threw it in the water, moved out little and watched as the eagle came and picked it up.
We went very quietly up around the corner where we saw the crocodiles go, we were in luck, 2 were lying on the bank, one took off into the water the other stayed, I took some photos but we trued to sneak in closer, the crocodile finally decided he didn't like us and headed for the water, he was a real good one approx 3-4 metres.
It has been a great day and we will go out again and explore some more before we leave Lake Argyle area.
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