An eventful day.
I went fishing this morning after breakfast with my packet of pilchards for bait. I started off using them whole on large ganged hooks and finished off using tiny scraps on tiny size 10 hooks. Reason being I had a lot of bites with nothing hooked. I eventually caught a few whiting one of which I kept. Susan will have it for breakfast tomorrow. The fishing conditions were not pleasant with a stiff breeze in my face which is now a bit sunburnt. Susan worked away on her cross stitch.
The main action of the day was the weather this afternoon or to be more precise the large thunderstorm we had. Boy did it rain and the camping area was awash. It is very sandy but the water didn't sink in. The PVC floor in our tent was afloat on 20 mm of water. The tent held up pretty well and if we had closed the door properly we would have had less than a quarter of a cup of water inside instead of half a cup. I rushed around in the rain like a madman digging trenches which now present a trip hazard. Although the one the guys across the way dug you could lose a car in almost. There was so much water in the camp area the "kids" were riding surfboards on it. Once the rain slowed a bit the water drained into the sand fairly quickly. The guy next to us was saying one time he was here he had water up to the axles on his camper!
I ventured to Rainbow Beach at 430 to get some more worms to have another go at the whiting tomorrow. I should have realised everywhere would be closed apart from the servo who didn't have worms. Anyway the tide is later tomorrow so plenty of time to do the 30 minute round trip.
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| Looking towards Fraser Island at sunset |
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| Sunset |
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| Sunset |
Another storm skirted us on dusk but we only had a few drops. We did have a nice thunder and lightning back drop for tea. Delicious rump steaks and a good blend of vegetables. Hopefully we have seen the worst of the storms. We ventured onto the beach to catch the sunset and take some pictures.
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| Sunset Panorama (click to enlarge) |
That's it for the day. Hopefully a warm sunny day for drying and lots of energy from the solar panels.
cheers Simon
Lightning tonight
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