27th, We head out to pull the cray pots, this morning it was a bit of good luck with 4 size crays, we then went hooking and got some good gurnard and flathead. It is hard to describe the beauty and peaceful feeling of fishing, the cliffs have so many shapes and changes of colours, the hills at a distance and the neck, the water is so clean and very very deep, I could stay there even if the fish weren't biting.
While we were fishing Shy Albatross were coming around the boat waiting for any fish that might be released, there was one in particular that Colin recognized which was blind in its left eye, this bird used to go to them when they were cray fishing to be fed, it came right up to us and was virtually eating out of Colin's hand, the same one came up to the boat to get a flathead that Merv was holding over the edge with the lip grip and they had a tug of war, it was so funny watching the bird pushing with it's big feet trying to get the fish, Merv did release it, and I never had the camera with me. There was 6 albatross around the boat along with pacific gulls and seals.
That night Colin cooked another great dinner with Tanya making a delicious apple and berry crumble.
28th, What a way to end the month, when Colin and Merv pulled the cray pots they got another 2 crays and caught 2 squid on the way out. I stayed on the wharf trying to catch a squid while they went out, I didn't have any luck.
In the afternoon we went around to Sue and gave her some cray legs then came back and watched some of the cricket on tv, the match between Australia and New Zealand, the game ended up being quite a close match but New Zealand won.
Colin cooked dinner again, while we were in the kitchen we were watching the ducklings run about fighting over bits of sqid, it was very funny they were tripping over it and playing tug of war 4 different directions all the while getting covered in squid ink.
We had delicious fresh berries from the garden for desert.
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