A Wide Variety of Fish

April 11th (Saturday)

Today turned into a lovely day of relaxing and exploring.  We headed out in Kiki in the morning even though it was a little breezy.  We had decided that if it was too windy to fish we would enjoy one of the beaches out near Wallace Bay, and we were prepared with a picnic lunch.  It was around low-tide slack when we got out there and after checking out the shoreline on the west side of the inlet we tried a bit of fishing.  It was too windy out in the middle of the channel, but we tucked ourselves behind one of the points and tried drifting around there.  Although we were not too far away from shore it was still quite deep, around 100 feet, so we thought it was worth a try.  We caught a small and very pretty Greenstriped Rockfish, a small Pacific Sanddab, which is a Left-eye Flounder, unlike a Halibut, which is a right eye.  This means that both of its eyes have shifted to be on the left side of its body, which has become the top of the body instead of the right side.  We then also caught a Sculpin; all three were types of fish that we had never caught in the area of Cousins Inlet before.  Other than that, we caught one small Sablefish, and that was it for the day. 
Greenstriped Rockfish

Pacific Sanddab

Sculpin

We headed over to one of the beaches that faced south and was fully protected from the wind, and it was in the sun.  It was lovely just to sit on the rocks and enjoy the beautiful day.  We had our picnic lunch and relaxed.  It was lovely.  
Before heading home for the day we stopped at one of the cabins on the east shore that we had never checked out.  We had heard that it was still in good shape, and that one of the residents who used to live in Martin Valley several years ago had been working to fix it up and planned to use it as a cabin.  There was a narrow area on shore where the large rocks had been cleared away, and a little gravel landing strip was left.  
The cabin was definitely in the best condition of any that we have seen around here, and it was obvious that someone had been doing some work.  The cabin was also very well stocked with linen, some clothing, tools, kitchenware, and some canned food.  



On our way home we pulled up our prawn trap and we had seven large prawns.  Yay, that was a lot better than three.  Although we have not been getting lots of prawns here, most of them are quite big, and these seven were all quite large and delicious!

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  1. JanApril 26, 2020 at 1:25 PM

    A good exploring day that ended in prawns - good one.

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