We woke again to a wonderful, sunny morning. We had a busy morning and a restful afternoon. Most were up for the continental breakfast at seven o’clock followed by a cooked breakfast of Eggs Benedict at seven thirty. We left on “Homer” and motored quite a distance along the Prince Regent River and turned into Camp Creek. PP King and his crew rowed up Camp Creek looking for water in 1822. We motored up Camp Creek for a considerable way from the river mouth with the navigable section ending at rocks and low cascades. It’s a very pretty area to visit with its high rocky walls and beautiful flowing stream. We were the first of the Odyssey passengers to visit this area since the wet season as the water level has been too high so we were lucky to have seen it. We climbed over the rocks for approximately three hundred metres and reached a sandy beach near a cascading, wide stream. It was here Henk joined the majority of the party and walked through water and across rocks for approximately one and a half kilometres to a large rock pool with a waterfall. They couldn’t swim in the rock pool as it is known to have a two and a half metre crocodile residing there. Cathy, Harry, Mum and I stayed at the sandy beach taking in the wonderful scenery of a gently flowing rocky stream alongside paperbarks and the red cliffs hovering each side of the creek. I ventured into a rock pool with a small cascade flowing into it. It was very cool to start with but I got used to it and stayed in for sometime. It was very refreshing.
We returned to “Odyssey” for a delicious lunch of Caesar salad, prawn salad and crumbed fish. More delicious food!
It took four hours for the “Odyssey” to pass leave Prince Regent River through St George’s Basin passing Mt Trafalgar and Mt Waterloo on our way to High Bluff to do some fishing. During the afternoon most passengers took the opportunity to catch up on some reading, napping or taking in the wonderful scenery.
As soon as we anchored off the appropriately named High Bluff we were quickly in “Homer” and made our way closer to the coastline. The fish were biting as soon as the lines went into the water and some very large Fingerprint fish were caught. There was much excitement as the fish came in one after the other. Henk caught one of the largest and it would have weighed at least seven kilograms. Harry also caught quite a large fish. Mum caught a metre shark and was assisted by Mark, one of the crew, to bring it in and remove the hook and return it to the water. Sometime later I caught Mark’s glove which came off whilst he was wrestling with the shark! There was also a crocodile hovering about two hundred metres from us whilst we fished. We returned to the boat as the sun was setting behind High Bluff. All the fish were brought back and Amber filleted the fish ready for one of our meals.
Dinner tonight was corned beef and vegetables. We all want to take Amber home with us as she is an excellent chef. She completed her four year chef apprenticeship at Geraldton and has worked in many countries around the world before taking the job on the “Odyssey” for the past three years.
The “Odyssey” sailed from High Bluff to Sampson Inlet and we anchored at nine pm.
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