I
may have mentioned the wonderful meals we've been sharing with Circe
and Chilli Heat but tonight's gourmet feast – a seafood smorgasbord
- set the bar one notch higher.
We'd
had King prawns and Moreton Bay bugs and David's wahoo, The cooked
prawns we ate cold, the raw ones were sauteed in garlic, the bugs
barbecued and the wahoo chunks in Asian inspired sauces. It was the
first time we'd tried bugs, like stubby lobsters or wide prawns with
sweet white meat.
We'd
bought the prawns and Moreton Bay bugs from an private house a short
way up the river. Initially it was proposed to walk the 3kms from
the marina but the day was hot – a quick look at the map showed a
faster route by dinghy. David and I hopped in our little green
monster and set off up the Amazon. It felt like the Amazon, a wide
and muddy river passing the sugar cane wharf, Bundaberg is sugar
cane. However, the port is currently closed and has been since the
devastating floods earlier in the year when the river burst it banks
and carried away the town marina, boats on moorings, boats from the
town marina, private jetties, channel markers and part of the marina
where we are. The floods also brought tons of mud which are having
to be dredged out to restore navigable depths.
We
whizzed past the dredger, a 150' long vessel, on the way up river OK
but coming back there was confusion about which way he was turning or
if indeed he was turning. We chose the wrong side to pass him on and
got five blasts on the horn, sea speak for 'what are your
intentions?'. Answer – to get passed without being run over! A
nifty change of helm and we passed safely on the side he wasn't
turning to. He was in fact reversing to come forward on a parallel
track.
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