This was the view from the verandah at 6.35 this morning
With the smoke haze not looking too bad we decided the paddle was on . After collecting S&V we headed down to the lake. Refections at our launch site
Taking to the water our first sight was the commercial fisherman looking rather sinister in the hazy light
Pelicans and Royal Spoonbills roosting at the end of Little Cuttagee
S's close up
Paddling up the lake was a little eerie
The fisherman slowly moving along his net line, pulling in dead and dying fish after discarding two drowned coots :( We the passed over a 2nd line of net stretching from the Umbigumbi shoreline to the Far End shoreline - what chance do the fish have! And this must be the fourth time he has fished Little Cuttagee in the past 6 weeks
Members of the CKC's revolutionary arm. We had thought Thursday morning was chilly - well today was ffing freezing.
As we paddled round into Cuttagee the haze became more dense.
Swans on Cuttagee
We mooched around and I paddled over a spoke to a young kayak fisherman who had been out since dawn without a bite, so I told him about the commercial fisherman taking everything he could. After which we stopped for a leg stretch at the point we had stopped on Thursday and then proceeded to paddle back through the haze
Pelicans on Little Cuttagee
The end of our paddle
Spotted today - a large pinkish jellyfish in Little Cuttagee and a huge dead mud crab which must have been 8-9" across the shell. Tho' Sam has since told me that it may not have been dead, but just a discarded shell the crab had grown out of. If that is true I'm not guddling with bare toes in Cuttage - its nippers were extremely large!
No breaky on offer today :( however we did manage to scrounge a good coffee and yummy biscuits :)
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