February 14th, Went out fishing with Wayne but didn’t catch any, the water is still very dirty. Elle had been putting down crab pots in the lagoon but did not catch any, so I offered to take them out in my boat and put them down in the River. The smell of the rotting fish heads nearly knocked Wayne and myself out so when we got back I told the group to keep all their fish heads for our crabbing pots. Val bought one of the pots from Elle so now it is a sharing venture. We all went to Black Head Bowling Club for dinner tonight and the food was good and the company great.
February 15th, No fish, No crabs, low tide. What else can I say, we went shopping!
February 16th, Lorraine & Wayne left this morning. No crabs, no fish, so decided to move the pots to the creek. Val has been busy with her quilting. We had a group BBQ at 7pm with our Caravaning neighbours.
February 17th, Elle, Harvey and Andrew left this morning. We rang Steven for his Birthday. We went around to Terri & Patrick’s Place, in this Park, for Drinks, nibbles and Dinner. Patrick put on a nice Roast Lamb Dinner, with Terri’s help and we all had a great night. Patrick is going to come out fishing with me on Monday.
February 18th, Didn’t catch any fish today and no crabs in the crab pot.
February 19th, Had a day off fishing, the ski boats are still tearing up and down the river. They start coming on Thursday and the last of them don’t leave till Monday morning. I checked the crab pot and the bait trap. No crabs, However, in the bait trap I finally caught a small fish and a large shrimp. Wow! Live bait for tomorrow.
February 20th, It stormed overnight but cleared up this morning so I could take Patrick out fishing. We went up the creek, where I have the crab pot, and Patrick caught a 40cm Flathead and all I could catch was 2 eels. Terri came around to keep Val company and brought lunch for all of us. When it came time for them to leave, their car wouldn’t start. Just imagine, we are in a Caravan Park with a car that won’t start, so we soon had a group studying the problem. It seemed that the cause was that the engine immobilizer would not switch off. We tried manual locking / unlocking, the dash light came on so we had power to the ignition switch (we assumed), the remote control for the door wouldn’t operate (must need a new battery) and through all of this the immobilizer continued to keep flashing its little red light. I decided to fiddle with the remote control and to my amazement the door started locking/unlocking by remote and the immobilizer light went and and ignition key when turned started the car (another miracle). Patrick and Terri quickly jumped into the car and drove the 300metres to their home at the back of the Park.
February 22nd, Yesterday was wet, showers all day so didn’t go out fishing until today. Patrick came with me but we couldn’t hook anything. The rain started up again at 1pm and chased us in, so we just pulled the boat up on the sand and left all the gear to be put away later. It was time for lunch anyway. It bucketed down all afternoon and when there was a break in the weather, late in the afternoon, I went down to move the boat into the Lagoon. I couldn’t believe it but I had been using Val’s mobile and had left it sitting on the seat in the boat. Water had got inside the phone and the screen was blank, bugger. I had to bail the rainwater out of the boat before I could drive it into the Lagoon to tie it up and pack away the fishing gear. Val had the afternoon in Tuncurry with Terri.
February 23rd, We sent a Birthday SMS to Greg and rang him late afternoon as well. We were happy that he had received our card and gift vouchers. I took Patrick out fishing, hoping to redeem ourselves, but no luck. We went out in the morning to fish in the creek and after lunch drove 15 minutes up the river to a spot where I was told there was a deep hole and fish galore, Hah! No fish and no crabs.
February 24th, Last chance today, we left at 10am with new bait and HOPE. Patrick caught a 43cm flathead within the first 5 minutes but unfortunately that was all for today. I took the boat out of the water and packed up ready to leave for The Entrance, in the morning. We have to be at Calga at 11am in the morning, to get a new roll out awning and our annexe walls fitted, so will leave the Park at 7.30am. Terri and Patrick bought Pizza’s from the Café in the Park and brought them up to the Van for Dinner. 
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