Easter weekend in Darwin

NT Fishing Charter

We went out on Saturday with Ben & Jo and Newfie Steve for our sunset fish charter adventure into the blue water of Darwin harbour.

http://www.arafurablue.com.au/


It was lovely - complete with sunset, storm, a few drinks and fishing.

Steve and Craig

Lis catching a big one...

Not!

It's just the tide pulling on our heavy gear.

:(

Ben and Joe

We got to enjoy a great lightning storm over Darwin (still love the storm clouds here!).

Haven't quite gotten our sea legs (and camera angles) yet...

We were out to catch snapper and jewfish (aka mulloway) on this trip.


Note: here we are waiting to reach the next fishing spot, and not just slacking off!

Unfortunately for us, there was not a lot biting.

Good thing there was a Newfoundlander on board cuz Steve was the only one on the whole boat who caught some decent fish - in fact he caught TWO 13 KG (!!) jewfish. It was very impressive - check out the shots, and the hard work.

















An exhausted Steve finally pulls in his catch

Very proud fisherman (sorry pics are out of focus)

Impressive huh!

Sunset over the water

And then he caught ANOTHER one!
(There rest of us were a bit jealous.)


Other than Steve's fish not a lot of eatable fish was actually caught - Craig caught an eel, Steve caught a catfish, and others picked up a couple of little sharks. Good thing Steve doesn't have a freezer so Craig and I had to offer to take care of the fish for him...

Coming home from sea
Moonlight coming up behind the storm cloud

All in all, a lovely Easter Saturday afternoon, and MMmm... fresh fish for Easter dinner!


Tales of South Australian Wines, cont'd
(see previous blog entry for first installment)

We continue our way through our lovely collection of SA wines.


Earlier in March we opened the Chateau Tanunda Shiraz. (see previous blog entry for notes on the Chateau)

It was okay, but sadly not nearly as good in Darwin as the Yalumba one we enjoyed previously.





This weekend, after a relaxing Good Friday we finished up the day with a McLaren Vale red - The Rogue from Nepenthe winery. Dad, you might remember that we enjoyed its brother in our backyard in Adelaide.



Quick reminder of Nepenthe from previous trips







http://www.nepenthe.com.au/






Well, it was still very nice in Darwin!

P.S. DJ - I actually do cook sometimes too, it's just that Craig is still better at it than I! ;)

Cheers to all from Darwin!

Now back to work!