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  1. GregOug
    Or me!
  2. GregOug
    I’ve already worked on that for you at Fraser @Drop Bear. Not a lot of luck unfortunately.
  3. GregOug
    Yeah. But probably only when the tides in
  4. GregOug
    You bet!
  5. GregOug
    Yep
  6. GregOug
    Yeah. Didn’t get a second chance though because it was once bitten, twice shy with that island for us!
  7. GregOug
    Thanks mate.
  8. GregOug

    Nrl 2020

    GregOug replied to ellicat's topic in Sport

    Or we could just go in mine
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    Nrl 2020

    GregOug replied to ellicat's topic in Sport

    Sound good but we have take the dentist again.
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    If it were me and I was thinking of going to a remote atoll I think I would choose Lady Musgrave. The fishing was fantastic and if the winds got up we could still fish the lagoon in the boat. The lagoon had great bommies and plenty of good reef fish, including some monster red throat emperor, which were certainly a fight in fifteen foot of water or so. I also found a bommie outside the entrance which held tonnes of trevally. On one trip some other guys took their 21ft ally around to the reef, outside the lagoon and on the seaward side and came back with some huge Spanish Mackerel and Coral Trout. Then again, we caught a hundred pound cod on live bait about 100 metres from the reef edge right near camp on the leaward side. I think I could still remember some of the spots even now. Mind you, as I said, this was all thirty years ago or more. Who knows how it fishes now. If someone organised a trip to Lady Musgrave I might be interested, but I think North West is too reliant on the weather and the tides, and very remote. At least the huge tourist boat used to come over to Lady Musgrave most days and you could buy ice and even other supplies if you let them know the day before.
  11. GregOug
    Hi @Ryannnnnnnn. I have posted it as a topic under the title ‘North West Island’.
  12. GregOug
    Yeah. I bought a pedometer about 4 months ago and it arrived about a week ago.
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    Nrl 2020

    GregOug replied to ellicat's topic in Sport

    At least you’ve got an excuse. My boat has been gathering dust.
  14. GregOug
    I haven’t done it but I imagine if you google map Lady Musgrave you will see that the lagoon is much larger and deeper, and will probably show the entrance as well, which is a bit away from the island itself.
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    Also, the lagoon at North West doesn’t have an entrance as far as I know. As I said in my story the only way to most coral atoll lagoons is to go over the top. Lady Musgrave is a bit different because the Yanks blasted a channel through the coral during the Second World War so you can enter at any tide.
  16. GregOug
    No problem.
  17. GregOug
    Mate I can’t remember what happened yesterday. The trip took place thirty years ago! Lol And there was no google maps or anything in those days. You arrived at an island, hung over, were basically thrown in your boat with your gear, and left to find your own way to shore. I can remember Lady Musgrave better because we went there maybe half a dozen times, usually had good weather which gave us time explore the lagoon and reef properly. The north west trip was a nightmare, and we didn’t get to do much of anything. But having said all that, the boat crew would just head straight to whichever island you were going to from the mainland and drop your boat over the side at the closest approach. They certainly didn’t motor an extra hour around the other side of the lagoon to make it easier for campers.
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    I still haven’t got it. According to the tracking number it’s been sitting at Shanghai airport awaiting plane transport for a month or more. Although in this COVID world we live in now, that’s not that surprising. Not a lot of flights happening at the moment.
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    Yep
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    Thanks @ellicat. I wouldn’t mind a return but probably getting a bit old now to be roughing it that much.
  21. GregOug
    Thanks @Nirvana. I actually would like to be an author but I’m just too lazy. I have written about half a normal sized book but lack the motivation to write the rest. Lol. I’d probably go back to North West but it is very isolated as I said and you would want to be very well prepared. And I wrote that story over a number of years, along with others, as the enthusiasm ebbed and waned.
  22. GregOug
    Yeah, I know @Another Wazza. But if you can’t have a good whinge occasionally, what’s the point really? Lol.
  23. GregOug
    No. That was probably the only saving grace. I think we used a combination of dry and block ice in those days.
  24. GregOug
    Thanks Kat.
  25. GregOug
    Me either Hamish. Me either. Sigh
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