Lake Argyle Cruise’s

Lake Argyle Cruise’s 16 July
We went back to the Lake Argyle area today, Sunday, To go on our separate cruises, previously booked at the visitors centre.
I did a 2 hour morning cruise of the Lake, while Dave did a 4 hour fishing cruise. Mine was on a boat with about 50 other people, just cruising the lake and being told some of the history of the area.

We saw rock wallabies, who came hopping down to interact with the boats skipper, who signals them down with a whistle, and then throw pellets out to them. Very cute little fellas!

We fed Archer Fish, which can accurately project a stream of water at an insect hovering over the water in order to stun it into falling and thereby becoming its prey. We were holding small pieces of bread out over the side of the boat and being bombarded by water spurts coming from the fish. While we were doing this a freshwater crocodile came along side just to show off or perhaps hoping to catch itself a fish for a snack. It didn’t touch any of the bread that was thrown in to feed the fish.

The lake is home to about 25,000 freshwater crocodiles, 3 species of Cat Fish, Sooty Grunters, and Garfish. Only one species of cat fish is edible, and is marketed as “Silver Cobbler”.
On the way back, the boat stopped for 20 mins for those who wanted to swim and jump into the lake from a rocky ledge.
Dave enjoyed his fishing trip and came back with about 3 kilos of filleted and ready to cook “Silver Cobbler”.Read more