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Mini Tinny Mission Wathumba

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Gday, 

Thought i would share a few pics of a recent mission to Wathumba in a 12ft tinny. 

Weather was not perfect with a 1.5mtr NW swell making the trip up interesting, lucky the wind was dropping and changing to ESE. After 2 hours of motoring up at a comfortable pace , I was greeted with rollers at the mouth of the creek.  Made my way in to set up camp and stretch the back out lol getting old. The wind had dropped out so i headed out for a few hours out the front of the creek. Did not take long to find bust ups and birds, spotties feeding lead to some crazy fun action. Boated 5 from 11 going flat out on them to get them past the sharks. Feeling exhausted and tired from 1 hour of sleep since the night before, i headed back to camp for some cold ones and sleep. Next morning i headed back while it was a glass out, knowing if i fished i would miss the window to cross back from moon to urangan. Wind was predicted to climb from lunch time. Great fun solo mission that i plan on doing again after the fires. 

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Good reward for effort there @wesfish. I have done that trip a few times in a northerly in bigger boats than yours and it was not fun. I bet you were a bit damp by the time you got there. The photo of your tents shows that some previous camper ignored the fire ban. Is that a motion sensing camera on the tripod? Keeping an eye on the dingos sniffing around at night?

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39 minutes ago, Old Scaley said:

Good reward for effort there @wesfish. I have done that trip a few times in a northerly in bigger boats than yours and it was not fun. I bet you were a bit damp by the time you got there. The photo of your tents shows that some previous camper ignored the fire ban. Is that a motion sensing camera on the tripod? Keeping an eye on the dingos sniffing around at night?

Cheers mate, lucky enough the wind had dropped but the swell was still there. That is my camp light on the tripod, lights up a good area 😁 dingos came through around 1:30am briefly, think they were licking my boat  on low tide 😛 boat looked like a murder scene from the spotties 😂

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Great session mate. Great to see Teebing didn't get burnt out. We were hoping to get there 2 weeks ago but were put off by the fires and chickened out. 

Glad the spotties are still in the  bay even with the northerly. 

Tugger put me onto those rod butt caps. they have saved my donger plenty haha. 

Well done mate. 

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