Magical moments

Every one is still asleep when my alarm goes off at 6.45 AM

At our place this in itself is a magical moment. For the last few years the kids would find the television way before we would wake. Not so in our bus. No television and tired kids. Nice.

With some encouragement I manage to convince Laura, Jaap and Peter to join me for some morning fishing. We are at Tumby Bay on the Eyre Peninsula and the weather is in our favour. Very little wind! Which is nice if you want to take a small boat onto the ocean.

The plan is to try and catch whiting or flat head, or what ever else wants to bite. Yesterday Tim and Hugo already caught some squid while the rest was having school so now it is the others’ turn to try to hook into something.

As we head out of the harbor the sun is slowly rising and the light is beautiful. Straight to the end of the bay and out onto the ocean but not too far away from a sheltering island on the southern tip of the bay.

The anchor is dropped on a white spot and we put the burly out. Within minutes Laura and Peter are pulling in tommy rough and lots of leatherjackets. All small but fun to catch.  Jaap is trying to get more squid and he is super excited when he hooks into his first every squid. Wow, they really do make a mess of the boat! The water is so clear that you can see the squid chase the lure and then grab it followed by a big cloud of ink in the water.

We travel home with a dozen tommies and 6 squid.  What an excellent morning out. Then on the way home Laura spots a pod of dolphins. They start riding our bow and the kids are hanging over the front looking at them. Magic! You cannot ask for better. On a school day!

Back at the bus the kids have an education session on squid which Christel puts on You Tube. If you want to watch it click here.  (at the end is the bit with the dolphins)

We cooked up the squid the first night on the barbeque and the next night deep fried. The second night won hands down.

For the recipe of salt and pepper squid with garlic sauce click here.