tacklethetopend: September 2010

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

PORT AUGUSTA

we were pretty excited about port augusta after hearing about the 40-50kg kingfish caught in 6 metres of water in front of the warm water outlet from the power station. it was a bad start when the steering snapped on the boat 1km from the ramp, we managed to get it going good enough to just get there and back, we had 2 shots at the big boys mitch hooked one on a stick bait after seeing some surface action but snapped the 50lb braid after a massive run & one grabbed a live squid but the circle hooks didn't set. we saw another boat hook up but drop the fish at the boat after 20mins, spoke to some guys at the ramp said the boated a 30kg model. the boat is out of action now so looks like we will be home a little earlier

the power station

someone hooked up

THE NULLARBOR

we just travelled across the nullarbor and it was completely different to what we were thinking, not just a boring straight road. it hugs the massive coastal cliffs of the bight most of the way. we seen some camels, dingos, lizards etc... checked out streaky bay surf looked pretty good but not good enough to cancel out the shark factor.

camels

146.6km straight

old telegraph station

welcome to SA

cliffs

rainbow

sunset

cool rig

whales at the head of the bight

dingo

streaky bay

geko

Friday, September 3, 2010

Sorry its been a while since we put a blog up, after the bluff we scored jakes point in kalbarri about 4 foot. got to perth the next day met up with Sarah, Bec & Damien it was good to sleep in a bed for a change and not be freezing cold from the dessert wind all night. met up with Janaya, Toby, Emily, Bec & Ben the next day and had a look around perth and a night out at the casino. We headed down the coast with Janaya & Tobes for 2 nights looking for some waves and ended up surfing smiths reef, north point & Margaret river. WA IS EPIC! waves everywhere and not many people, could be because of the big ass great whites swimming around