Up North, Episode 1 - Denham

So I went up north of Western Australia with some friends. It was a great trip and 4 days 3 nights certainly wasn't enough! To make the writing process easier though I have decided to split the entire story into several segments.

First you need to know we drove more than 10 hours to get to our first destination, Shark Bay. We stayed there for 2 nights. There was lots to do at Shark Bay, and the highlight was Monkey Mia, but that's a story for another episode. We found ourselves in a small beachside town, called Denham, in Shark Bay. That was where our little chalet-thing was. The small house did not look very impressive from the outside, but on the inside...

Not bad, huh?

Enough to accommodate all 7 of us. 

We stayed in the center of town.

Having nothing to do that night, we decided to try our hands at fishing. There were several jetties along the stretch of beach at Denham and they proved to be excellent fishing spots for novices like us. We managed to land some good loot even though we knew nothing about angling and did not have all the right tools. We only had 1 fishing rod. So Zhong Yang and I relied on a stone and fishing line, and yet we still had a good catch.

Too dark. You can't see them holding the rod.

Those of us not into fishing played card games.

 

 And if you are wondering what I meant by "catch", well there you go...

Zhong Yang and I landed the black one. The rest were caught by the others using the fishing rod.

Zhong Yang and I caught a total of 4 fishes that night, 3 of which we released back into the ocean because they were simply too small. Australia imposes strict size and bag limits on the fishes you can take home, so we had to be careful not take home too many fishes. We fished until way past midnight before leaving the jetty, and our catch became the next day's dinner.

...and that concludes episode 1 of this amazing adventure!