Crabbing

Crabbing on a wet Sunday in Ceduna


Saturday, Russell and I finally caught ourselves a feed of crabs. I was getting pretty tired of only ever catching one or two (hardly a feed) and threatened if we didn’t come away with a feed we were going for Chinese!

The local fish factories give away heads and carcasses for bait, so armed with a bucket of these, we headed for Denial Bay jetty. We pulled two in our first pot, and ended up with 8 lovely blue swimmers. The park provides a gas cooker to deal with them and a nice spot to eat them in the grape garden. The grape garden is a net covered area with grapes, figs, tomatoes etc growing and free to take.

When we were getting our bait, so was another couple, they also ended up out at Denial Bay, and it turned out were staying at the same park. We all cooked our crabs, then sat and ate together which was nice. We spread newspaper over the table, got out the salt, pepper and vinegar and demolished the lot.

There was an extended family of aboriginals down fishing when we were. They came away with a big bucket and bag of crabs and a couple of big bags of mixed fish. It was really nice to see them out there rather than lolling on the foreshore waiting for 4pm to roll round so they could buy their grog! And nice to chat to them about their days fishing.

Today, three couples had planned to go crabbing, but the wind was ferocious in the night and now it’s raining. So much for super hot, sunny Ceduna. I have to admit the rain is nice though.