The trip this week:
Foster - Port Franklin - Wilsons Promontory - Bear Gully - Eltham
The stats:
Days fishing: 6
Fish caught: nil
Number of kilos of fish we could have eaten for the money spent on fishing gear so far: 12
This week has been absolutely fantastic. After our failed attempts at fishing the various ports of southern Victoria we headed down to the Prom for a 55km, 3-day hike which was easily the most stunning walk we have done. We learned two valuable lessons on the walk...
1. Take enough metho. This way you won't have to make a decision between a cold supper and drinking untreated creek water.
2. Put your scroggin in an airtight container... not a zip lock bag. Having questioned Burnsey's sanity when he packed only a few handfuls of sweets/nuts for our walk, I came around to his 'scarcity principle' realising it would increase the value in times of need. He further redeemed himself by wrestling it out of the mouth of a determined possum in the middle of the night after it climbed into my backpack (under the clips and drawstring and all). Unfortunately all of his brownie points were lost the following morning when he left the zip of his backpack slightly askew as we headed up the hill to the lighthouse... when we returned we were scroggin-less thanks to a black cockatoo who was clearly smarter than we are. Devastating.
A massive thanks to Chris and Anna, Sammy and Jonno, Jodi and Berkhard for their wonderful hospitality
Here is a little compilation for the week. See you soon!
P.s. Sorry! The second video should play on phones and ipads...
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