It's always fun when you're somewhere and you see a friend from home! This is Angela. She's from Vancouver and was in Australia for a friend's wedding. At the end of her trip she came to visit us for a couple of days and see the Northern Beaches. We spent a sunny, hot day together fishing in the lagoon that Kim's house backs onto.
- The first picture shows us enjoying a beer on the beach and having a cheers with the rock pool in the background.
- The next one shows Angela and Kim pumping nippers. Nippers are little shrimp like crustations that live in little burrows on the bottom of the lagoon. You put the pump over a burrow, pull the plunger out (it's not as easy as it looks) and push the plunger back down emptying the contents into the black inner tube which is a sieve. If you're lucky enough to have gotten one you put it into the grey bucket with some water and presto, you've got live bait!
- We didn't have much luck that day but the third picture shows me and Ang trying our luck at the entrance to the Lagoon. That's Kim's little boat, or tinny as they call it here! Later that afternoon as the sun was getting ready to set i finally caught the first fish of the day. It was a little Brim and i cried while i was reeling it in. I'm new to the whole fishing thing and, as a vegetarian who just started eating fish a few years ago, i struggle with the actual act of catching anything. I'm probably the only fisherman in the whole entire world who actually hopes they don't catch a fish!
