Well there are 4 of us deep see fishing. Russ, Mark, clare and myself. I walk with russ to the wharf and we meet mark and clare there. Mark has brough steak where russ and i brought rolls and crisps and beer.
We wait for ages until we realise or a guy called gary who is also on the trip goes and see's the guy on the boat. Ian is our captian and he's there with his aging dog, wife and 2 year old son robbie. We set off to tghe firts location after clare and I get the dummies guide to fishing by sue (the wife). Well what else is there to say from 9 we are drinking beer, fishing and eating. You put squid on as the bait, throw you line out and if you are me you snagged every other minute till your too afraid to tell the skipper you have been snagged yet again.
Think it became a standing joke that I would always get snagged. Gary the austraiklian profeesional fisherman didn't catch anythign the first one who did was Russ and that was at the early part. I forget what its called but it wasn't a bad size and a prietty colour but it was horrible watching it splashing around on the side till they killed it.
I caught two. They were red in colour and really small so they threw them back in after opiercing their air bags. No fair...gary joked that all my fish swim upsidedown afterwards.
After that we took the fish back that russ caught and got cleaned up as all off smelt of beer and squid. Note to anyone fishing, the smell of anyone who puts squid on the bait line doesn't go after 2 washes, 3 or even 5.
Mark was great at baby sitting sue's little boy.
Well we were a bit stuck on what to do with this fish as in back packers there are no sharp knives and I don't know how to fillet a fish. We were really cheeky and asked the kitchen chef of the restaurant if they would fillet it and then we would share it with bec and clare who would supply pasta to go with it.
So the fish got filleted I made up a lemon and gralic marinade (we had nothign to work with) and used that on the fish fillets. We had the smallest pieces so this fish ended up being a $100 dollar per person fillet. 5 of us go fishing, 1 catches and 4 eat it at a cost of $100 of each. Russ was a bit redundant as of what to do while clare and i took over...me on fish duty and clare on pasta. Tasted great though.
That night was kats last night. We went to the hostel bar and kat was buying drinks like no tomorrow. Bec, clare, shell, mark and patricia were all there and we went through jugs of beer. Russ was trying to get out of having more beer as he had to catch a flight that night and didn't want to be stopped at customs.
Well the first left which was Ben. He was escorted by bec and clare. Next was Russ and then left was kat. There were some guys in the bar who offered to get us drinks and Kat was hilarious after complaining they got her drink wrong and demanding another. She also did a geat job of the splits. Was a bit worried she would be too drunk for the airport but clare thought i was making a mountain out of a mole hill which I probably was.
The guys who turned out to be their night off from a restuarant near by were really annoying so I went to bed leaving kat, bec and clare to go to the vic for more booze. Clare saw kat off on the buss that night.
Next day we all went off and did our own thing. We then met up and went to see Harry Potter. I thought it was great but the editing sucks and you can tell its a different director as their seemed to be big gaps. Its not got a par on the previous and harry's acting couldn't get anymore wooden. Not sure about the new dumbledore either but apart from that I loved it.
That night we went to shell and marks hotel for a few drinks. Gosh was it posh and no we didn't bring the tone down. After days of continually drinking we were quite glad of a slow non drinking evening. We had a great conversation said goodbye to patricia who was leaving and then said goodbye to shell and mark who were flying back to perth in the morning.
Next day bec, clare and myslef just did our own things planning to meet up later to go and watch the sunset on the beach. I went and treated myself to a haircut and some streaks. After they did it while looking in the mirror with wet hair I thought shit what have I done...why didn't i wait till sydney but once it was dired and she dried it straight I was quite chuffed....yahooo straight hair boy have i missed that.
Bec and clare were a bit wow that's didfferent. We got a bus down to fanny bay and went into the sailing cub to see the best sunset ever. That was absolutely amazing. We went back and cooked dinner at the hostel then sat and drank the end of clares red whine. Then clare went to bed and bec and I finnished the jacks. We all had great conversation and a good time. We were joined by alexi who clare and becs did kakadoo with.
Next day I got up and clare and becs kept me company till the bus arrived to take me to the airport. Mum (or should I say clare) helped me sort out my laundry powder into plastic seally bags which we spilt everywhere. I said goodbye to them and got on the bus. When i got to the airport they stopped me saying they needed to scan me for explosive material. Then I remebered the laundtry powder that we spilt. I got hoovered off and tried to joke with the woman telling her it was laundry powder but then she said that she thought I was carrying a dangerous weapon. It turned out to be a whistle attached to my torch. Great aye!
Posted by alexd at June 21, 2004 03:25 AM