Man and Wife
This is my first one - a Hussar
Then I got seasick!!! I was so excited to be going out on the ocean and then so disappointed that I all I wanted to do was die -well maybe just be violently ill! Then the whales came! There were 2 or maybe 3 groups playing. They were amazing.
At one stage, one of them started coming straight for us. We started to get a little scared, I could just see us being tipped into the ocean....
It did come closer, but by that stage I was just fascinated and not interested in taking photos....okay I was trying to work out what to do if it tipped the boat over, but no it was just showing off to us! I really do think they were putting on a show for us. There was a Conversation Hour (Qld, with Richard Fidler) a while ago about the whales at Hervey Bay and the Scientists doing the research had the names of whales that kept coming back each year and they had personalties, so I do think they knew that we were watching and enjoying them and so they were showing off. Animals do have conscious thought! I've been around pigs, dogs, cats, cows and even chooks long enough to know that!
Anyway, I eventually got over my sea sickness - it helped being put onto land for a little while. We stopped on a lovely beach on Great Keppel Island and then on Humpy Island where we ate our lunch.
Our view while we ate lunch. Looking out towards Keppel Island.
So after a great success on the fishing front, we headed home to our Beach Shack where we cleaned and filleted and divided the fish.
An esky full of fish!
6 coral trout - pretty as well as tasty!
Filleting the fish
Spanish Mackerel - a fish that is a great fish to catch, as well as one that has a good bone out percentage. I'm keeping some of this as large fillets to preserve in oil (aka tuna in oil). I'll do this next week!
Dinner last night was Baked Coral Trout. No lemon or limes here, so I picked some herbs (parsley, coriander and mint) from our Host's garden, added some chopped garlic and spring onion and then added a splash of soy sauce, fish sauce and sesame oil.
Then wrap in baking paper and baking in the oven.
It was delicious!
I'm looking forward to getting sick of eating fish!!! Although, I'm going to cryovac most of it and freeze and take home - after preserving some of the mackerel. Follow Lucy's Kitchen if you want to see that.
Great catch of fish Lucy. I know about being seasick, all you need to do is sit under a tree, as you found out. Just heading out for Bushwalking at Isla Gorge one of our favourite spots.
ReplyDeleteHi Jane, by the time you read this, you'll be back so I hope you had a lovely bush walking weekend. That's a beautiful spot but I'd imagine that it's a fair bit of climbing too! I'll miss you this weekend.
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It looks like you had a productive day, for all your efforts. I actually hate fish, and all manner of seafood, but will eat calamari and canned tuna. It's the smell that gets to me. I don't know why. My daughter, on the other hand, loves all kinds of seafood!
ReplyDeleteI absolutely love fish and all manner of seafood!!! Oysters maybe not so much! I do think I enjoy fishing off the beach more than the ocean though.
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