Day 6 We drove to Exmouth and I wasted no time going to the Mildura Beach Wreck to pop for GTs and Queens. Had a few huge takes and hookups on poppers but the fishes somehow didn't stay hooked. They were big and strong though.
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| Sunset at Mildura Wreck Beach after some late afternoon popping from the rocks. Awesome! |
Day 7 was supposed to be a boat fishing trip, but the weather was bad so we stayed on shore for some boatyard fishing, which was rather fun too, with small GTs readily attacking my lures from the rocks. We landed Garoupa, Bream and Tuskfish too.
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| Here's a selfie with one of the aggressive small GTs from the rocks. Lots of fun. |
Day 8. We swam with the largest fish in the ocean, the Whaleshark!!! Yeah! For once, I didn't mind leaving the rods in the car.
Thanks to the amazing crew of the Whaleshark boat, who helped us take some nice underwater shots, and made our day a memorable one. I'll let the pictures do the talking.
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| Here are the girls all excited about the swim with the sharks. |
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| We saw lots of small fish and remoras swimming around the shark, and we had to swim hard to keep up with these sharks. |
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| That's us in the water with the sharks. |
Basically, a spotter plane finds the sharks, the boat drops us into the water ahead of the swim path of the shark, we wait for it to pass, then swim along with it. A once in a lifetime experience for us.
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| Here's a pic of my brother trying to get a pic of the whaleshark. |
The company's name was 3 Islands. Thanks Mag, Roxy, Tara, Josh and Tyler for making this a truly memorable day.
Day 9 We drove back to Carnavon where we fished from One Mile Jetty again, landing some legal sized Bream, which we brought back for dinner.
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| The thing about fishing in Carnavon is that the bites never seem to stop. The kids had fun catching these bream. |
Day 10 Near the end of our return leg, we stayed with the Vigilantes and had a wonderful homecooked dinner. Before that, we went to Geraldton beach and I caught the last fish of the trip, a small Dart.
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| Here's a dart which took my bait meant for Tailor... with my trusty Bata slippers. |
Day 11. In the morning, my brother decided to stay in Geraldton to catch up with his friends. That's when we said our goodbyes. We also thanked our gracious hosts Phil and Sally Vigilante and made our way back to Perth, where Daniel brought us to a scrumptious Dim Sum lunch at Dragon. We had time for some shopping and we finally made our way back to the airport to deposit the Kia Carnival (which was much better than I expected in terms of comfort and space, I must admit).
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| At the front porch with Phil and Sally on our last day in Australia. I'll remember the apple crumble too. |
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| Back at Perth Airport just before boarding the plane back to Singapore. Kinda miss home too. |
Well that's the end of my quick update of a trip to Western Australia where I drove almost 3000km and had the chance to experience winter and summer all in the same trip.
