After Whitey left my brother Andrew and his mate Steely took the forward cabin! Andrew brought his motor boat down from Gladstone and the boys loaded Faraway with their food and bags then zipped off to set their crab pots while the tide was right. They met up with us for lunch on board Faraway at the Elbow. After lunch we all went to shore and pumped for yabbies. It was pretty easy once we found the right spot but unfortunately the fish weren't even biting on yabbies. We went back to Faraway and Ian cooked a great BBQ meat dinner for us. The boys were exhausted so we all got a pretty early night in. The next morning we were up early and jumped into Andrews boat to do some fishing with lures. We drove right in close to the mangroves and saw loads of turtles, rays and sea birds. It was great to see so much life in one small area. I was the only person to catch a fish and it turned out to be a shovel nose shark with a very cute face shown in the top photo. Andrew's mate Steely turned out to be the 'Mud Crab Whisperer'. He knew everything there is to know about catching these delicacies and zoomed off in the dinghy with Ian to pull up the pots while Andrew and I fished. They ended up catching 3 males which were enough for dinner for the 4 of us. Steely brought a gas cooker with him and the boys hit the beach before sunset to cook the crabs. Andrew proved to be a deft hand at cleaning the crabs and he kept us supplied with lots of meat from the claws for our dinner. It was nice to have the boys on board for the weekend and we both learned a lot about fishing and crabbing (even though we didn't catch a 'keeper' fish between the 4 of us.
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