Stories and comments from a Cairns Resident.
A busy day…
Well, as noted yesterday, I took Matt fishing at the mouth of the Barron River this morning.
We left pretty much on time at 7:30am and got there a bit before 8:00am and although the fish weren’t biting, we did have a good time (mental note, never again buy Instant Bait unless in the boat and have berley as well). Matt had a good time playing with a stick drawing in the sand while the sand spike held his rod – I doubt that we had any bites beyond 1 or 2, still it was a good morning despite me ruing not having the boat to do a drift over the sand banks…
Not to worry however as I’ve got this coming Saturday night penciled in for an ‘overnighter’ and there will be crab pots and lots of bait available. Check the picture of Matt with his new fishing rod below as the car park all decked out in North Queensland certified fishing attire:
After getting home, we cleaned out the fish tank, did some washing and then mowed the back yard; man it is getting dry here – bring on the wet season; I don’t think that I’ve ever inhaled so much dust when cutting the grass 
To top it off, I found that the mower (which is close to 20 years old) will finally need t be replaced, it has a leak in the fuel tank; going to go with Matt to look at new 2 stroke ones over the next two weeks. If nothing else I need to have a two stroke mower to use any old boat fuel up 
Cleaning the fish tank took a while to complete, completely drained the tank and filtered the stones and gave the coral feature a good blast with the hose to clean it up and then re-filled and cleaned the filter again before returning the fish to their home. The tank looks much better for the effort and I’m sure that the fish appreciate it!
Dinner was barbecued sausages for the kids and two pieces of rump steak for Jacinda and myself with fried onions an mushrooms; washed down with a bottle of red wine – damn fine if I do say so myself!
Now, where did that weekend go?
about 4 months ago
Wow, good luck on the transfer to Word press. It is a great platform for blogging, but not as easy as they tell you. Just make sure you back up your database like 4 times. I know I lost a few along the way. Love your site and the pic of Matt
about 4 months ago
Hi MOB, thanks for the comment.
My site is on WordPress and has been for 4 years now; haven’t had any issues so far with it. I do have my site backed up a few times a week so things are always able to be restored if the proverbial does hit the fan
That being said I probably have an advantage over most people with 10+ years of IT experience so I can fix most issues or see something going bad a long way off before things get nasty and beyond repair.