Adventure 3.2 Eastern Beach Run

Monday, 13 July 2015 6:51 am



The day starts with a spot of fishing.

Queen Fish a plenty and a small Shark that gives John a great fight.


We are now on a long strip of coast that collects lots of Pacific junk, it is also a favourite place for crocks as they move from high water into the swamps behind the beach.


















Queen fish and shark for breakfast.












Just a reminder that no swimming !













Because there are some big Crocks.























A different style of dug out canoe.











We camp up at Hunter Creek and on the shallows there are 5 sharks in a feeding frenzy.











Lyn catches a nice size Queen fish for dinner.













Camp 3 is on the southern side of Hunter Creek.


Enough fish for dinner for the 6 of us.








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Next morning we are fishing for breakfast and on Croc watch.










This 4 metre Croc cruises the bay and eventually enters Hunter Creek.







Further south another couple of dugout canoes of different styles












Fresh water for drinking and washing is from the sandy creeks and soaks that flow onto the beach.









Yet another style of dugout.













An unlucky sail boat.

Someone dream !











Some beach junk to adorn the quads.












Camasade Creek, used to be a great fishing spot, I am sure it still is, however the mangroves are such that there is only a small sand spit at low tide that is flooded at half high - just not safe.









This 2 metre shark still fishes Camasade with ease, and we can see Crocks further up stream.












Camp 4 is south of Camasade and just north of Oyster Bay where there are these massive Black lip Oysters.












Next morning as the tide recedes we pick our way carefully around the oyster covered rocks.











North of Capy Billy’s it is a matter of picking a line between the boulders on the rock platforms between high and low tide.











In many cases they are nice wide platforms.



We have each a 20Lt fuel supply squirrelled away at Capt Billy’s Landing so with that now collected we head south towards Double Mouth Creek.