Sunday 5 August 2012

Bucket list number 786 -  Catch a King George Whiting....check!

We put the tinny in at Ceduna where we stayed at a van park for a few days and with some advice (find a patch of sand in the bay in amongst all the grass beds, burley up and wait) managed to catch a feed of KG's.  As per ritual the first one was released and we had fresh KG's for tea. 



Happy little fisher...! Old Arthur two chins Jackson and his first ever KG whiting.  They don't fight anywhere as hard as a big sand whiting from up home way and come in quite easily for their respective size?  Also are a very slimy fish and seems to continue to excrete slime hours later back at the fillet table when cleaning.  The taste I am sad to report is also no where near as nice as your good old sand whiting of which the locals were also catching plenty along the coast as we travelled.  THis photo day before the below photo's when we managed to convince JB to come out with us.


Jessy-belle caught the biggest I think?  We should have measured them I spose but they were all legal (30cm and 31cm depending on which side of Ceduna you fish).


Kerriann and her first KG and another happy camper!


Slippery little suckers!  Don't get it on me mum!!!


Seal Colony just south of Streaky Bay at Point Labatt.  Wild coastline!  The dots on the inshore beach are the seals.  The babies were seen to come and go swimming in the shallow pools and no sign of any sharks or killer whales!


Doing it tough it seems?  Eat, sleep and snuggle!


On the way in to the seal colony we saw a sign for Hay Stacks and drove into a property and found this top little spot.  A bit stone hengishy.....?



In one of the hay stack formations was this fantastic wild bee hive.  Very cool!


We missed going to Wave Rock so this one at the Hay Stacks will have to do us.....!



Streaky Bay (I think) and very calm weather conditions.  Brought some magnificent oysters at a shed we were given instructions to find....huge bucket of oysters for $20.



Coffin Bay....more bloody oysters!



The big green shed oyster farm we were told to go to and where I got the bucket of oysters from.  All those tubes are part of this massive oyster farming operation in Streaky Bay.  Love people and went to all manner of trouble on a Sunday to get me a bucket of oyster for $20.  Don't you just love fisherman/women the world around....best people in the world!



Giving the oysters a bit of a shake and wash at Cape Donington (September Beach) in Lincoln National Park south east of Port Lincoln.  Magnificent location!  We watched a pod of dolphins here that appeared to be supporting a birthing mummy in the shallow close to the beach. 


The best oysters I've ever eaten hands down....!  Here I'm shucking a few for Kacie for Killers....one for her and two for me natural!  Kerriann could be nervous...hard to say?


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