San Remo to Shallow Inlet.....

Woke up early and was quite near to the pier so I decided to do a bit of fishing. When I was younger I used to fish a bit but it was always in ponds and never in the sea so I didn't really have a clue what I was doing. After about 20 mins of not catching anything, a kid came along and started fishing next to me. As soon as he saw my rig he shook his head and said no, no, no, and proceeded to show me how to properly set myself up!

I was fishing with a lure and he showed me how to reel it in so that it moved the way a fish does. After about 15 mins of doing this I started to notice the fish following the lure and chasing after it. I casted out and was reeling it in when a big black shape shot after it, took the lure and swam off! It fought hard for about 10 minutes before I finally got it in. The boy told me it was a decent sized barracuda and to watch out coz they have the sharpest teeth so could easily take my finger off. We had to wrap it up in my t-shirt to get the hook out! I'll put the pictures up 2moro!

Later that day I managed to break a tooth by accidentally biting into a chicken bone....I'm supposed to get subsidised medical care over here cos I'm British but they wanted me to fill in a load of forms and wait a week while they processed them! So I had to pay over $400 to get it done privately which made a serious dent in my finances damnit!

So after that was sorted I started the trip along the coast. I had the tooth done at Wonthaggi, which was a pretty boring place....then drove to Cape Patterson and right along the coast to Inverloch. That part of the drive was beautiful and I stopped off at lots of beaches with white sand and crystal clear water! Ended the day at a place called Shallow Inlet when the tide was out, leaving a massive area of flat sand for me to rag the car around on!

The next day I was going to Wilson’s Promontory national park.....



The fish! Notice the way I want to be in the picture but am also worried that it will jump up and bite my ear off!



An attempt at showing you the size of its teeth, it kept jumping up and down and I was shitting myself so the pic is a bit blurry but you get the idea!



Beautiful scenery between Cape Patterson and Inverloch



More beautiful views



Eagles nest rock formation



Shallow Inlet



And again at low tide




Its not just nice beaches they have in this area, the countryside was beautiful too