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Thursday, 27 September 2007

There were no tourists here back then!

Well here I am in Agnes Water / 1770 - a place I've frequently been told I should visit. Upon arrival I could see why... it's really quite beautiful here. Unfortunately, however, I appear to arrived at the worst possible time: school holidays. It's not the large amount of children that bothers me - it's the ill-expereinced power boaters, many of which would rather get so close to your odd looking fishing kayak for a geez instead of staying well clear of your trolled rods. This was happening at Burrum Heads as well, but no anywhere near as much as this place. I've lost 2 trolled lures to boat motors in a single day and the experience is probably going to keep me off the estuary system from here on in. The sheer amount of holiday makers is sure to keep this a short visit. 1770 is just one of those places I'll simply have to come back to when the timing is better, because it doesn't take a rocket scientiist to observe just how good it would be on the right day.

That said, I'm going to head on to Eurimbula creek today, where I had it on good word that the place is very fishy. Bream, Flathead and Barra are all possibilities I'm told, so hopefully I can pull a few out. I do have a trip report to upload, but not the spare bandwidth to include the photos, so I'll get that one live as soon as I have a better connection.