Friday, 19 September – Eighty Mile Beach

After a long and fairly uninteresting drive, with only one roadhouse along the way, we arrived at another beachside camp. Eighty Mile Beach is wide (and obviously very long) and is popular with fisherpersons and shell collectors.

Fishing can be a risky past time here with sea snakes, rays and the ever present sharks.  Gordo put in some more time fish feeding which eventually paid off with a couple of blue nosed salmon and a small shark. Kaz put in a fair bit less time fishing and caught the biggest blue nose.  Anyway we made up nice feed of fish and chips and salad.

It was Gordo's birthday but he is so old he couldn't remember how old he was until reminded by Kaz.  So Gordo gave us a reason for having another great celebration featuring a lamb roast and a red or two.

We passed the time again with more walks and fishing along the wide sandy beach beside a beautiful turquoise sea.

Gordo's 6x Birthday Celebration

Cake Urchin Shell

Eighty Mile Beach Sunset

Shell Collecting Along Eighty Mile Beach 

There's Plenty Of Beach For Everyone

 

Happy Fisherpersons