Gone fishing.

[moikel]

Mick this all looks just so amazing!
The swimming croc, the pan of mud crab and these massive FISH!!!!
My God, you must have had a blast - your liver too - and the scenery is beautiful!
Welcome home!!!
Cheers! - Leah

Thanks I had a great time,it's along way away but Darwin is a fun town. The fishing camp is the complete get away. It still has a frontier feel up there,lots of tourists now but the wet season will start soon & things will slow down.The backpacker tourist/ working holiday youngsters will head south.
Crocodiles are a funny thing ,I don't have to think about them in day to day life it's just a news item when some one gets hurt a long way from where I live.
You get up there & get out in the country & they are an issue every day when you are near saltwater. You go from top of the food chain to food item if you do something dumb like go swimming.

 

[moikel]

The new last frontier for this style of fishing is Papua New Guinea. I am thinking about it despite PNG  being very dangerous in places.

If you get away from the bigger cities its better. There are 2 species of bass that grow to 50 pounds & maybe beyond as well as  barra ,mangrove jacks etc.Stupid numbers of crocs.

PNG  a very significant place in Aussie history thanks to WW2,a lot of tourism to famous battle fields,skin diving wrecks but its tricky in parts.I want to be in a lodge not camping.