Coen's first Fishing Trip

While on our Gippsland holiday Coen and I went on a fishing trip with Granddad and Uncle Tim to Port Welshpool.

Here's Coen all set for his big day out in the boat.

His first fish was a nice 30+cm long flatty. Closely followed by.........

A Shark!

A nice little Gummy. (We wont mention that it took him 30 years less than his dad to catch a shark.) A little undersize so back in he went.

On the way back in we saw this little "Tugboat" coming into Port carrying sheep from somewhere down Tassy way over here to the mainland to be loaded onto a Cattle truck. Delicious, delicious sheep.

Was a great day fishing in pretty good conditions. Fairly calm water with an overcast sky and temperature in mid to high 20's. A good haul of fish of about 3.5kg of flatty fillets.

Coen got to watch Granddad and Tim filliting the fish on the jetty and was fascinated by the MASSIVE Ray swimming directly below us.

Aaaaaahhhhh Holiday!

We've just returned home from our most relaxing holiday in a loooong time!

Darron is on leave at the moment so we took the opportunity to head down to Rosedale and The Shack, to catch up with some Huffers and relax at the beach.

Coen had a wonderful time playing with Dayle and Alyshia and Lara! He even shared his bike and his cricket gear with Alyshia, which is a pretty big deal for an only child who is used to having every toy to himself!



After a couple of days in Rosedale we wandered down to Paradise Beach with Tracy and Dayle to spend a few days at The Shack. Where we did a lot of this:

And spent lots of time here:



With no mobile reception and rubbish tv reception, we really relaxed. We read books and news papers, played cards (ok, I didn't play cards, but the others did, I knitted) walked on the beach and chatted. Wendy, Len and Tim came down for an afternoon and Len even caught a flathead that we had for dinner that night!