Monday 7 October 2019

The End Has Come

Well, today is the last day of our sojourn to Bjelke-Petersen Dam near Murgon and it is time to start the packing up process.

However before that happens, I must fill you in on the local Inland Fishing Competition that was held here over the weekend. Peter and his brother-in-law, Colin decided to enter and I got two days of peaceful stitching.

I made a start on the next set of mini quilts - my 'Travel' set. (Not the best photo taken, but at least it shows what I have been doing)



The guys managed to catch quite a number of fish, mainly Australian Bass and Yellow Belly.


Saturday was quite a tiring day for them, with the day being very hot and two sessions of fishing, followed by a night of dinner (from food trucks that came to join in the fun) prizes and competition winners for the day.
 
Yesterday (Sunday) was a very early start with the weigh in around 10am.


As you can see, there were quite a lot of anglers out on a very depleted dam which has only 5.17% capacity in it. Yep, the drought has hit really hard up this way.

Sadly neither Pete or Col got anything of a reasonable size, but joined us up at the marquee results and overall prize giving for the weekend.
Col got a lovely prize for the heaviest (overall) Australian Bass.


Both Pete & Col then got a prize each in the random draws. Col's in in his new esky, which is the same as Pete's.


After all the excitement, we spent yesterday afternoon packing up our little boat ready for Pete to take home in the morning (today - Monday), whilst I go about packing up things in the van.


It will soon be time to bid Bjelke-Petersen Dam a fond farewell for another year, and head off home.


For now though,
                              
                                                                                                and thank you for stopping by.


1 comment:

  1. Aftr a happy holiday, its always nice to head for home again. I'm intrigued with your Australian map, are you stitching roads you have travelled?

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