Day 57 Monday 8th August

Day 57 Monday 8th August.

Rob, Paul and Ray were up early this morning as they were going off on a chartered fishing trip. They were picked up at 7am and taken to the large boat down at the marina. I did some washing and had a quiet morning watching some of the Olympics and reading. Lyn, Steve and I met up with Heather and Hanna at the famous Coral Bay bakery for lunch. We had promised ourselves one of their specialities for lunch. We also checked out the shops......without the boys around. Later in the day we went down to the other small shopping centre where the resident jeweler had his shop. He has been here for many years and makes some stunning pieces of jewelry using shell and stirling silver. Of course we had to purchase a few of them. The fishermen returned around 3.30pm. They had beeen out beyond the outer reef, about 20 km off shore. Unfortunately it had been a bit rough so Rob struggled a bit but the boys were all happy as the boat had &bagged out& with a variety of huge fish including, snapper, red emperor,  robinson etc. The crew spent about an hour cleaning and filletting everyone's fish. Paul, Rob and Ray wanted the wings of the fish which are normally thrown out so they spent their time cutting them off and gathering them up. Once the fillets were back at the caravans, Hanna and Heather spent some time cleaning the fillets up and ensuring there were no bones left. The bags of fillets were shared out and we ended up with about 15 packs of fish fillets for our freezer.