South White Cliffs looked like the ideal spot to fish from the back of the boat, so as everyone arose the lines went out early, and the crab traps were checked still without success. Fishing yielded some more interesting results, we caught 4 puffer fish, and two very undersized flathead, one of which we think was a tiger flathead.
Having given the fish a good feed and got nothing to eat, we pulled up the crab traps and at around 10 am weighed anchor and headed off for North White Cliffs, where the Kingfisher resort is also located. It was a short motor up the Great Sandy Straights in mostly deep water and by noon we were anchored off the beach to the south of the jetty in about 10m of water. The crab traps were quickly deployed, fishing lines tossed out the back, and we caugt one reef fish we couldn't identify, but it was too small to keep, so threw it back.
In the afternoon we decided to explore the area on foot and took the dinghies ashore. We had a good look around Kingfisher Resort, very nice, but not a lot of people there, went for a walk up to a lookout that gave a great Northerly aspect of Fraser Island looking towards Hervey Bay, and returned to the resort where after a walk out on to the jetty, we decided to have a beer at the bar in the day visitors centre before returning to our boats.
Rod , Lee and Crole on the Jetty at Kingfishers
When we got back to the beach to take the dinghies home, a fair wind chop had come up and it was a bumpy ride back to the boats. Recovering the crab traps (still empty) and getting back on board in the surge was tricky. Rod & Lee decided not to join us for dinner as it was that rough and they were concerned about getting backwards and forwards and getting the dinghy back on deck for a morning departure to Bundaberg tomorrow.
We packed up, had a lamb roast dinner cooked on the Cobb and went to bed with a plan to leave around 7 am for Bundaberg.
The conditions didn't improved over night and the boat pitched and rolled all night until around 5 am, needless to say none of us got a lot of sleep.
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