A beautiful, calm day on the water, started with this delightful sunrise.
Last time I went out on my kayak, someone stole my kayak trolley - so this time I had to drive onto the beach to launch. It was too far to paddle to my usual spot and i do love an adventure, so i just paddle out to where I thought looked good and set up for some fishing and crabbing.
The fish were slow to come on the bite, so I had a couple of large crabs in the bucket before attending my rods. The fish were undersize or not worth eating, so I concentrated on the crabs.
After catching 8 crabs i decided I’d try a new spot in hopes of catching the right species of fish. With the anchor up I paddled to a new spot and was met with instant success. Well, kind of. I caught a bigger fish but he wasnt worth eating so i kept him for crab bait. A couple of the right species of fish came up next, but they were too small.
So I threw the crab net back in and caught my 9th and 10th crab. Even though it was still early, I knew it was time to leave when the 10th crab wouldnt fit down in the bucket. I grabbed kybwater bottle and pushed him down, but another crab stuck up his claw and pierced my water bottle!
Now its really time to go- only thing worse than an angry crab walking around the kayak is 2 angry crabs trying to take a toe off. And with no spare water to drink in the hot sun (38c in the shade that day).
I headed in early to visit the seals.
They were frolicking around with their fins out the water, looking shark like. They weren’t disturbed by my presence so I stuck the Go Pro under water to get some shots.
Back at home i boiled and shelled the crabs before tuening them into delishus crabby patties. Heres some shots of the natural blue colour and the cooked red colour of our crabs here in South Australia.
Even their meat has some different colours running through it.
(All photos taken on either an Iphone 14 or GoPro black 9. No filters or editing applied)