Crabbing don'ts:
- Don't drop the crabbing line into the water, the weight on it tends to make it sink, arggghhh.
- Don't attempt to pull up a crab line with a babe in arms.
- Don't touch the little horrors
- Don't forget to take the bait out of the bags at the end of the trip, ( unless you want to start a maggot farm in your garage) ops!
- Don't try to handle 4 crabbing lines, 3 children, a baby and all the accessories of a day out while balancing on a wobbly pontoon.
- Don't let teh kids release the crabs on teh pontton, as they will definitely head away from the water, doh!
We headed off to a good crabbing spot, but had to start by parking in a very busy car park. Not fun when your parking skills are as bad as mine, in fact my parking skills can only be described as deficent in every way. It took a little while to find a tank sized space before we could start our day.
Once out of the car we headed to the great play park. The girls played while Aidan took charge of pushing the very large communal swinging log.
We were very well equipped for crabbing with nets, lines, buckets and bait all ready to go. Money being very tight I decided to forget the expensive bacon option, and instead used much cheaper fish sticks as bait. What a genius I am!
The jetty was very busy, but we managed to find a spot and were soon reeling in crabs, with our total being somewhere in the region of 50.
Aidan nearly managed to loose his head. Leaning over the edge to see if a crab was on the line he was paying no attention to the rest of the world, when a tour boat chose that moment to dock. Luckily another mum spotted him and pulled him away from his near decapitation.
By the end of the day the kids were all very wet, and tired, and we were all very much ready to head home.
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