Narang Creek

The trip to Lake Mondura was steady. We are away from the multi lane roads and onto roads akin to our A roads. Fortunately they frequently have overtaking lanes ie two lanes in one direction and one in the other. This doesn’t make me feel too bad that we are slowing traffic down,

It’s a big lake behind a big dam. International acclaim for the fishing here for Barramundi. The lake holds the world record of around 90Lbs on 23 December 2010 “THE world's fishing spotlight is set to shine on Lake Monduran, with possibly the biggest ever barramundi caught on rod and reel claimed there on Tuesday night. Fishing from a kayak, Denis Harrold landed the monster fish, which tipped the scales at 44.6kg. It measured in at 135cm with a whopping girth of 107cm.

Apparently “The big barra fell to a slow-trolled 130 Squidgy slick rig soft plastic in black/gold colouration.” - I never knew those really existed.

We’d agreed that we would do some chores and repairs, but a walk to watch the sun go down, and then look at the moon ... we’ll chores can wait - except the washing.

4 $AUS to do a machine of washing - a top loader. It took the washing, took the washing liquid, took the money .... then didn’t work. Bun asked a nearby woman who was camping with her 2 poodles, but she didn’t know what was wrong. Bun phoned the out of hours number and someone came down to sort the problem. The solution was pretty pragmatic, they didn’t know what was wrong so use a different machine. Fortunately they had a spare $4 to put into the machine, but all ended well.

Fishermen get up early, we were disturbed at 5:30 by people packing up, cars and boats moving etc. When we got up at 8 the campsite was also almost deserted.

We gave each other moral support for our chores. I had to empty the “grey water” and Bun the “black water” ie toilet cassette. Neither was as difficult as we had feared and both were achieved without mishap.

We set off later than hoped, heading north to Agnes Waters, a recommendation from the woman who helped us with our fridge problem.Read more