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Published: October 16th 2010
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Today we did lots of driving and ended up on the Eyre Peninsula at a wonderful fishing and holiday town called Venus Bay. We went fishing. I walked all the way with Dad to the jetty and we walked along the jetty to the very end. Then we set up the fishing gear. We had blood worms, cockles and hooks. First I put a blood worm on and I threw it out with my reel and then I just waited. When I was sitting I didn’t know that little fish were nibbling on it so when I brought it up after a long time there was no bait on the hook. I threw out again and again, but caught nothing, only seaweed. Then I put cockle and blood worm on my hook together and I threw it out to the part where it was nearer to the jetty and then I felt lots and lots of bites and when I got it out of the water I had a fish on the end of my hook, but when it was 1cm from the jetty it fell off. Dad kept on catching crabs that were always hanging on and then, plop! Into
the water. Before I nearly actually caught the fish I saw the most interesting creature I’ve ever seen, a sea dragon. I saw it by just looking down in the water and I just saw it, like a piece of seaweed that was floating, but I knew it was a sea dragon because it had a long snout. Well, I don’t actually know if it was a sea dragon or not, that’s just my theory. If it was a bit of seaweed it would have been a strange shape because it looked very much like a sea dragon. Anyway lets get onto other things. Like “Dad’s Terrible Mistake!”
Mum came down to the jetty and she said, ‘dinnertime’ and I was throwing out and I said,’watch this’, but it just tangled around me, three times, and then dad said,
‘let me try’ and he threw the whole reel off the jetty! Then we packed up and left to go and have dinner. When we were going back we saw about 8 or 9 pelicans roosting on the beach, they weren’t doing much, just roosting. Some other birds were in the water were catching fish.
We tried fishing in one
of the other port towns we visited too. We didn’t catch anything, but I went over to a man and he had about 8 squid and I asked him if I could touch one of his squid and he said, “yeah, take one.” He held one up to me and I went off to show Dad. Dad was trying to catch a squid as well. We took the squid back to the caravan park and Dad taught me how to gut it and cut it into rings.
A few days before we camped at Innes National park where we saw lots of emus and their chicks, more than 20 blue tongue lizards, 4 snakes (one while we were riding) and a kangaroo near our bus. There was no one else but us there. We went for a long walk along the cliffs and nearly got blown off. There was an old town there which we rode to and explored. There were lots of old beautiful stone buildings that had been fixed up. We planted 6 Sapote seedlings we had because we knew we couldn’t take them across the border into WA. We will visit them one day and maybe
they will be big tree and people will get food from them.
Before going to the National Park we were in the Adelaide Hills. We went up and down lots of windy, steep roads, it felt like we could fall right of the edge. We visited lots of towns and all the bakeries and looked in antique shops. We stayed in Handorf which was a German town first, it felt like we were at a festival. There were lots of shops and lots of tourists. Dad busked for a little bit, then later he played in a group of jazz musicians who were playing in the park. The Heyson music weekend was on so there were lots of bands playing. I saw a candle shop where the flames from the candles heated the air above it and made little figures go around like a merry-go-round. There was also a craft shop that used to have dead bodies below it in the olden days. I showed Mum all these places, and also the cows, roosters, sheep and other things made out of recycled tins and metal drums.
Before we went into the hills we went to Adelaide city. We
rode our bikes everywhere, our caravan park was only 2km from the city and we could ride along the river the whole way. In the caravan park there were two rabbits that hopped/walked around. They went under our bus sometimes. We went to the museum and it was excellent. Mum’s favourite part was the place that showed all the skeletons of the animals set up, Dad’s favourite part was looking at the rocks from the Flinders Ranges and my favourite part was looking at all the animals and the skeletons. We did lots of shopping, well Dad did. He bought another really expensive ukulele and music case, loop pedal music case, stage makeup and hair, I got some books and Mum got nothing. I have just finished reading the “Indian in the Cupboard” trilogy which was wonderful, “Charlotte’s Web” and “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” and lots of others. Now I am reading “Rowan of Rin”, reading is one of my favourite things.
This is a long blog because we have been doing lots of things. Just wait for my next one!
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