Herp Derp

Fishing was good on Saturday. The weather was beautiful in the morning and I got a couple of fish.

The sky was gradually gone dark in the late afternoon and it started to rain. However, it didn't bother fish much as I landed a few fish for a half hour of fishing.

It was a different story today.

The rain kept falling over night but the sky turned to blue around lunch time.

Fishing didn't improve like the colour of the sky though. We flog jumped from a point to point, but we did not hook up a thing.

I think the only interesting thing I found today was this cute sand painting drawn on the river bank by some local artist. The creature says "Herp Derp" which means "No fish you idiots" in the ancient language of the fishing kingdom of Breamtania.

Afternoon at the estuary

I was fishing at the Mandurah estuary this afternoon. It has been a while since I fished there last time, so I was interested to find out what fishing is like these days.

I got a lot of fish in the estuary last winter, but this season hasn't been that good for me, so I was happy to catch anything today. I got a few herring and kept a couple for dinner tomorrow.

Thrombolites

Our school was hosting a group of Japanese students from our sister school, and I have been driving around to show Japanese teachers different places in Perth and around our school for the past weekends.

On Saturday, we headed down to Lake Clifton to see strange living fossils called thrombolites, as they have requested. I haven't seen these things before, but many of our students were saying it is a waste of time, so I wasn't expecting that much. Contrary to the teenager's dry and apathetic view of the natural wonder, it was quite interesting and our visitors were impressed with a scenery as well.

After that, we went to look for kangaroos, and after searching here and there, we finally found a kangaroo hot spot with a help from a family of our students. One of the Japanese teachers also found out that it turned out to be a tick hotspot as well.

先週からオーストラリアに来ている大阪の姉妹校の先生方を連れて、土曜日は、生きた化石と言われている thrombolites というマリモのお化けの様な物を見にLake Cliftonへ行って来ました。

地元の生徒からは、見に行くだけ時間の無駄と前から聞かされていたので、実際に見に行くのは僕も今回が初めてでしたが、これはこれで見る価値はあると思いました。

On Sunday, I finally got some free time to go fishing and fortunately the weather was right as well. It was nice to be on the water again and I was happy to get some fish too.

日曜は、天気も回復し、釣りに行く時間も出来たので、２週間ぶりに釣りに行きました。数匹釣って満足して帰りましたが、その後に同じポイントに行った友達はアタリの一つも無かったそうです。

やっぱり良い潮の流れを外すと、良いポイントでも良い結果はでません。その辺が海の釣りの難しい所でしょうか。