Jurien Bay

On Tuesday morning (May 9th) we left Perth and headed north to Jurien Bay. It’s a small fishing town about half way between Perth and Geralton. It’s quite close to the Pinnacles (do any of you remember Billy Connolly running naked through them in a series he did?) We plan to go look at them but have been too tired after our big days of fishing (they are supposed to look their best around sunset).

The park we are staying in is really quite good-cheap and relatively empty right now. We bought a fold up boat trailer in Perth and this is the first time we’ve been able to use it. It’s great and made our fishing yesterday and today so much easier. I think it’s going to make a real difference to our trip. The weather is great here too-just a bit warmer day and night than Perth and no wind. I think it was about 27 degrees today and warmer again tomorrow!

The fishing is good here. We’ve caught lots of fish we haven’t even seen before. Today we hardly lost a bait, bringing in a fish almost every time. Lots were “butterfish”, a pretty striped and blue fish (pretty the first couple of times we caught it at least). We brought one home yesterday to try and while it was very edible, it was pretty bony so we threw them all back today. I caught a flounder yesterday, we caught lots of slightly undersized snapper today, a couple of striped sea perch and some other unidentified reef fish we are just about to try and see if we will keep tomorrow. We got a few whiting too.

We had a bit of a problem neighbour here. He’s travelling on his own and makes a bee line for anyone who moves out of their van. Fortunately he doesn’t talk to me, but annoys the crap out of Russell. He’s got a low IQ, but manages to be a complete know-all on any subject he cares to start a conversation about. All conversations lead quickly to him too!!!! Fortunately, he’ll be moving on Monday. We’ll be leaving here Wednesday if we don’t extend our stay.