Lots of tasty seafood

Another absolutely glorious day, which made the sounds look better than you can imagine. We packed up and went to Chris’s fishing beach which was all ours. Chris went off rock climbing and brought back a huge bag of mussels, before quickly grabbing his rod and heading off across the rocks again to try and catch some fish to go with our shellfish friends.

Gorgeous

I got on my new swimsuit and headed to the clear blue water to cool off. He returned after nearly getting cut off by the rising tide, with only half a spotty (small fish), the other half used as bait in search of a monster snapper or blue cod. We decided to try and take the coastal route back, 1) to avoid the steep climb up the hill, and 2) to see if we could find anymore fishing spots.

Lots and lots of jellyfish

We had to be quick as the water level was rising and making the rocks harder to cross. Although it was a tough scramble, having to avoid lots of jellyfish we made it safely around then walked the length of the bay before returning to camp.

Stupid jellyfish

Upon return we stopped in on Andy and Tracey, who had also been fishing but the other way, and had managed to get a small bag of mussels, 2 blue cod and a handful of spotties. They were planning to cook up some chowder and crumb the blue cod. Chris suggested we both cook something and share our fare together.

Rock climbing

We then returned back to the car and Chris tried his best to make something, with nothing. The result was an amazing Moroccan couscous salad with mussels and he also managed to make some damper bread with rosemary to complement the chowder. I don’t know how he does it! We had the chowder and bread to start, then blue cod with couscous for main. It was all delicious and Chris helped Andy knock bag a fair amount of his home made whiskey. All in all great day and night.

Lots of tasty seafood

Waimaru, New Zealand