leaving Innisfail

Today we are heading further south towards Townsville past Ingham to Jourama Falls a NP not far off the highway. It has a nice creek and large area for camping. We do some tidying up of stuff we have accumulated as well as finally putting a shelf up in one of the cupboards. Gary Ablet Jnr wins the Brownlow medal. There is a wetlands walk in Ingham, and we spot heaps of birds along with 2 snakes. It’s been getting pretty hot during the day but as usual its OK in the shade and the nights cool down nicely.

We pack up early and hit the road hoping to get a spot at Rollingstone. It is very popular and hard to get into so we are getting there early trying to pick up a spot when someone leaves. You are only allowed to stay for 48 hours. When we arrive there is plenty of room so we set up. It’s a great place by the ocean and a huge grassed area next to the park area. I go fishing straight away but there is no luck here. There is a bar/shop on the creek called Fishermans Landing so we have a couple of beers in the arvo. It was even happy hour. I’m up early and down the beach again for a fish, the tide is very low and there is no action at all. We go for a bit of a drive around to look for some other spots and Tina drops me off down the road and I fish there. Only two bites they are flatheads and I lose both, one in just 6 inches of water. In the Arvo we head down the bar again for happy hour where Tina gets to help out by feeding the Kookaburra’s. They take it out of here hand.

We move just down the road to Saunders Beach which is only 25k from Townsville. I’m straight down the beach again and I head down to the rocks while the tide is coming in and quickly land some small whiting. I use these as live bait and fish with these for quite a while. I did not land anything at all. I have exhausted my bait and as we are heading off to Darwin after the weekend I use up every last scrap I have, no wonder I can’t catch anything.