The view of Port Lincoln from a lookout.
Steve and Liam squid fishing one evening.
4 squid were caught. Liam caught the biggest one. We enjoyed eating it for dinner the following night.
The next morning Liam and Steve went fishing and Liam caught 4 King George Whiting. Steve must be Liam's good luck charm. We cooked them up to have with the squid caught the night before. We all enjoyed the crumbed calamari but the boys and I found the whiting had too many small bones and we gave our serve to Steve who had a feast of whiting.
We drove to Port Lincoln National Park and enjoyed a game of beach cricket at September beach with Ella's family. It was a lovely beach with shallow, clear water.
Liam loved hitting the ball for six into the water.
Ben with Ella having a ball at the beach. Ella reminded us of the boys cousin Amelie. She had the same colour hair and eyes and olive skin. She even had a similar vibrant personality but she is slightly older being 2 months older than Ben. They became very good friends and they were both very sad when they had to say goodbye.
The next day we went on a boat to feed the tuna. You could choose to swim with the tuna too but we all didn't fancy the idea of being in the water with fish that are so big they can weigh about 60kgs and the average weight is 34kgs. We were all excited about seeing them and feeding them.
We fed the tuna pilchards whilst wearing a mesh glove as the tuna have sharp teeth and they can't tell where the pilchard finishes and fingers begin. The tuna would swim very fast and come from under the platform we were kneeling on.
In a separate enclosure they had queen snapper, red and pink snapper, salmon, skippy, sweep, yellow tail, port jackson sharks and gummy sharks. We didn't need the glove to feed these fish and the sharks were very small and stayed down the bottom.
On the fish feeding pontoon they had a small touch pool with sea stars, sea urchins, a baby port jackson shark, squid, herring, abalone, and scallops. The boys enjoyed holding many of them and even patted the baby shark when the man held it.
On the pontoon they had an under water observatory to see all the fish up close. We were amazed to see the tuna up close and see how big and fast they swam. We could also see all the fish from the enclosure with the snapper and other fish.
Ben with Ella having a ball at the beach. Ella reminded us of the boys cousin Amelie. She had the same colour hair and eyes and olive skin. She even had a similar vibrant personality but she is slightly older being 2 months older than Ben. They became very good friends and they were both very sad when they had to say goodbye.
