Wednesday 18 September 2019 Bermagui River

It was only 3 of us taking to the water this morning; G&R having headed north earlier in the week and L out with a skiing injury :(

We met up at the slipway beach about 9.30am  and we were soon ready for the off

at 10.05am. S had her camera today so we have some decent bird pics -  they would have been perfect if the camera had been on the right setting :)

Terns

 Cormorants and a sleeping pelican

After we gone under the bridge and drifted round the first bend: the best my little camera can do

and S's pic of the same Oyster Catchers

Up around the next bend, on the edge of the salt marsh S managed to snap this pic of  one of a group of  Eastern Curlew as they disappeared into the mangroves

Not many fish spotted today even though the water was crystal clear

And shallow, because of the low high tide

Roosting cormorants

We had morning tea at our usual spot over looked by the two seemingly permanent campsites that have been set up - they were there when we last paddled the Bermi in early July.

After a brief break we set off back down stream at 11.45am.  With the thought of lunch at Octopi looming large in our minds we continuously poddled our way back downstream,

arriving back at our launch site at 12.40pm, giving us plenty of time to unpack the boats, load them on the cars, change and get to Octopi in good time for a 1.30pm booking.  L joined us there for a delicious lunch in the sun (yes the clouds cleared toward the very end of our paddle).

Note: I noticed the commercial fisherman in Little Cuttagee just before it got dark. He was coming from the vicinity of  the caravan , stopped close of the boundary of Tranquility and Far End, seemed to do something quickly with a net (but not pull it in) and then left.

Trip notes:
(for map see reports of previous paddles)
High tide at Bermagui Bridge: 11.30am 1.2m
10kms
2 hrs 35mins