Yesterday was an interesting day! We started out fishing off the back of the boat and caught a stingray, followed by a GIANT toadfish (see picture) what an ugly brute with teeth to take finger off and it is reported that these fish have done exactly that! Yuk. We set two crab pots also yesterday and at low tide we went yabbying in the same area. We got a good few yabbies, great bait for whiting. Anyway Chris decided to walk over the sand banks to check one of the pots – it was in a little channel. In she waded to look at it and pulled it up to see if we had a couple of fat mud crabs. No such luck but we did have a metre long grey coloured shark – she shrieked and threw the trap back in the water. So brave Andrew to the rescue. In I went and pulled up the trap – I could not see the shark, until it moved – scared the crap out of me. Undeterred I reached in a pulled it out by the tail. Once I had it suspended from my hand I was wondering what to do next when Chris said, “it’s got a little sucked fish on it”. So I turned it to see and the damn thing started to fold upwards toward my arm – my turn to shriek and drop the bloody thing as fast as I could. Unfortunately it landed in the water and took off. It was AP’s job to re-set the crab pot, hard to do looking all round you at the same time. Will check the pots today and I hope the shark is smart enough to avoid the pot this time. We had drinks of Synergy last night and on the way back one of the ladies fell into the water off the back of her dinghy – her partner managed to help her to get to the side of the dinghy, where she was able to hold on to the gunwale. A couple of us left Synergy in our dinghies realising something was wrong – we did not know what it was until we got there to help. We managed to get her on board but she was in mild shock so I don’t think we will see her for a while. It was a frightening and sobering experience for all the people in the team we are travelling with. It is blowing quite hard here today over 20 knots I reckon and we are getting occasional rain squalls so it is a day to catch up on inside jobs – maybe a walk this afternoon. We didn’t walk, we checked our crab pots instead and caught up with Bob and Julia and Ron and Robyn where Chris was taught how to play Rummy-o ( a game with tiles using numbers). But the crab pots were interesting. In the first fancy one, nothing, but in the little one two muddies and a fish. Unfortunately the muddies were tiny so they went back into the water but the fish was a beauty, a nice big flathead – he must have been 55cm long so he is for breakie tomorrow. A quite night tonight on board with some red meat for tea. We have been eating a lot of fish lately – good for us too.