Rollingstone

From Cooktown we moved on inland through the Atherton Tablelands which to my surprise is a very pretty area and it would have been nice to have had more time to explore the area and fish a few of the lakes/dams, but onwards we proceeded back to the coast to a place called Rollingstone, about 60km north of Townsville. This place is very quiet, you are camped right on the beach, the views are amazing, the fishing not bad either!!!!!!!!!

This is a picture of Leah reading just across from the Taj Mahal, this was our view!!!!

Notice kids in background fishing.

Here is Jarrod and Claire fishing again!!!!! both the kids were fishing all the time here as it was perfect to have a cast. We all caught a few Flatties here and Claire caught a ripper, so guess what was on the menu that night, mmmm fresh flatties. Jarrod also caught a small Mackeral a little further up the sand bank when we all went for an evening fish in the river at Balgal. The only problem we had here, if you could call it a problem!!!!, was that the mud craps were pinching our baits. They would even take soft plastic if you left them on the bottom long enough. There were some keepers (legal size and males) among those pulled to the bank

Here's a picture of the pool at Rollingstone caravan park. It was very cold though so we stuck to the fishing and wading in the ocean. At this caravan park they have large man made lakes throughout the site (no photo's sorry but plenty of video footage) and in these lakes are large Barra, Sooty Grunter, Mangrove Jack and Threadfin Salmon. The kids would get a bag of food each day and feed them and they would go off!!!!!!!!!!, shame they wouldn't let me fish for them, still great to watch.

As Rollingstone is only 60km from Townsville, we took a Sunday morning trip to town to the city markets and also the sights to see. Here is a photo looking over Townsville's esplanade with Magnetic Island in the background. People had warned us about Townsville being not so nice, however, like many other places we visited and other people disliked on this journey we thought Townsville was very nice.

Leah and the kids down the esplanade at Townsville.

We are starting to notice that the video is getting used more than the camera thus limited photo's of some places. We also took a little drive up the coast to a place could Lucinda. Here there is a massive wharf that you can fish from and its just opposite Hinchinbrook Island. Very pretty spot and yep, you guessed it great fishing!!!!!!!!, just so happened I had a few rods in the car so the kids and I decided to wet a line. We didn't land anything!!!!, however Jarrod lost a massive GT (Giant Trevally) that did it's best to pull him in!, we also saw a few other large fish caught.