Maiden Voyage

Yesterday we took the tinny for it's maiden voyage. We launched it in the Eudlo and motored out on to Maroochy River. We ignored the water that was coming in as it was a pretty slow leak, and even when we were on the water for hours, we didn't run into any trouble with it. Unfortunately I was asked to get out the map a little too late and we promptly ran into a sandbar, and the good news is that the paddles work quite well. The boys (Matt and his dad) were able to paddle us (Matt's mum and myself) off the sandbar as we ate fresh blueberry muffins and sipped our Monk's pear tea. It was quite peaceful without the motor on. After taking the boat for a run (and me occasionally driving in circles because I had some tiny steering issues), we anchored and fished for a little while. I caught a few small fish that all had to be thrown back. The highlight for me was when I unhooked my flathead from my hook and wondered why it was still dangling there in mid air when the hook was out - which was when I noticed that the blood worm had it's pincers in the lip of the fish and was holding it there! Now that's a good worm!!! We did a mad chase for a while after a swimmer crab that was dancing around the water around the boat just out of arms reach mocking us, but unfortunately it eventially just swam in deep. The rain eventually got a little too heavy for comfort and we headed to shore. I think it was a lovely maiden voyage in our tinny:)