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[JeffH]

That is the point of fishing -to catch something. [Doesn't always happen.]
What did you have for dinner tonight?

[robbiegal]

Great Kel we went fishing to night came home empty handed but had fun.the zoo is near where we go so hearing the Lions roar on sunset is really unique.
And the turkish pizza house is not too far away! So I am all set up with fold out chair. My gaggle of torches, food, roaring lions and a friendly enough water rat. In all of that I do get handed a fishing rod. To night the son only had a rod for me as I prefer the hand line. So he patiently gave me casting lessons. I kept my hat on even after sun down as robbie and a fishing rod is a sad sight indeed. Ha ha we only nabbed a baby red fin so we chucked him back in. Almost caught a turtle but fortunately didn't.  Irather like this going fishing business on a work night.  Very relaxing. I used to catch flathead fishing with my mum when I was a kid. Oh the excitement and the fantastic feed that would follow.

[autocoupler]

Looks like you had a good day out Kel. Love those flathead, caught some beauties up at 1770 in the mid nineties :yahoo:

[Nevol]

Nice flattie Kel! :yahoo:

I used to love fishing when I was a bit younger, still have all my rods & reels etc, just can't seem to part with them.

My favourite fish to eat were silver bream and flathead, but I used to groan every time a flattie got caught as I was the one that had to do the filleting and the flatties bone structure is so bizarre. I refuse to eat fish if there's even a slight chance of a bone being present.

[keldaw]

today we are both stuffed from fighting the big ones yesterday .
our arms and back are the parts that really suffer the next day .
 we lost 4 bigger ones of the G/T , one even took 200 metres of dawn,s line then just kept  going and left her reel empty and when he got to the end , the line cracked just like a whip as it broke from the reel . I reckon there were 40 or fifty in the school that we saw , and that was only as they broke the surface of the water . this happened less then I km from our house . so not far to travel .

That is the point of fishing -to catch something. [Doesn't always happen.]
What did you have for dinner tonight?

 fresh fish , home made chips cut like wedges and salad

[robbiegal]

fresh fish home made chips and salad

yum yum
what is your address!!!

[JeffH]

And call here for dessert. Fresh picked blackberries with cream.
More yum, yum.

[robbiegal]

I am really jealous - time to move east

[robbiegal]

if I don't get a few pumpkins out of this vine this year I will be upset
has about 7 babies or more at the moment
i'm hoping that we beat the frosts

[Pedro]

Now how many things can you make with pumpkins?  :scratch_one-s_head:

Pedro

[autocoupler]

if I don't get a few pumpkins out of this vine this year I will be upset
has about 7 babies or more at the moment
i'm hoping that we beat the frosts

Looks like my Dads back yard when I was a kid. When they got to be bigger and he was pumping the water into them fairly regularly, he would place the pumpkins on a thick pile of grass clippings so they were off the wet ground. My first try at growing pumpkins was after we were married, and I forgot about the grass clippings bit. They  were all rotten on the bottom :blush:

[robbiegal]

Pedro
I am fairly boring as it I smostly me who eats them
pumpkin soup
small chopped roasted pumpkin with various herbs & maybe roasted beetroot with that
pumpkin chips

my mother used to make pumpkin pie but I never have

[jens coins]

pumpkin scones are the best

[robbiegal]

got a bench half full of eggs carrots and now zucchini
so I am embarking on quite a bake off today
carrot cake number one is underway as I type
SBS zucchini slice for dinner tonight & SBS spinach pie for tomorrow night
gawd I feel like a vegetarian

Auto - yes I usually pop some thick cardboard or anything really under little mister pumpkin plant
now I have the chooks & they are very good at getting rid of the bugs that would usually demolish the little veggie
one year our vine grew up the plum tree and fair sized jap pumpkins were hanging like giant apples - until the possum found them and ate them just like a giant apple
they looked hilarious hanging in the tree eaten out to the core
not that it helped the freezer fill up with winters soup stores!
Auto - thanks for that reminder
there are a few babies hidden under those leaves so I will pop something under them - and keep up the water
I bought a beaut sprinkler and it has made things easier in the watering stakes

[trout]

This "Grey haired Nomading" is becoming a bit of an addiction for me and Mrs Trout.
After the last trip we realised that we were "Under gunned" as far as power requirements , fridge/freezers and sundry other odds and sods are concerned.
Last trip we had a new Primus 40l 12/24/240v fridge freezer (which worked beautifully ) and a spare tuckerbox 240v freezer that was an absolute pain to get on and off the ute.
We also took my  new 3Kva genset that weighs in at 58kg that is also a pain to load and unload and a 120w solar panel set up using my old Boat battery for the 12v requirements .

When we got home we decided the thumping big tuckerbox freezer was too much of a pain and had to go, I purchased a new 80l Waco 12/24/240v fridge freezer to use as a fridge and use the Primus 40l unit as a freezer which is plenty big enough for our needs.
As the 120w solar array doesn't have enough "Grunt" to power both of these I had to get another set of solar panels (160w) and 2 new deep cycle batteries with special battery boxes to power both of the fridge/freezers along with the 12v lights and fans.
I also bought one of them flash inverter type gensets that is rated at 3Kva and only weighs in at 28kg for when we need to crank it up which shouldn't be too often considering we have 360ah of power in the batteries and most of our gear can run on 12v (even the new vacuum sealer) which will save us using quite a bit of petrol :good:

It has been quite a steep learning curve for us as we have never owned a van before and we tend to like stopping in the middle of nowhere so we have to be fully self sufficient .
It didn't work out too well last trip  But with our new gear maybe we will be better equipped for our next trip :angel:
I have to do 2 more jobs in the northern goldfields so after Easter we should be "Good to Go" for a week or so at Carrarang Station :yahoo: