on the way back from Goolwa we stopped in at Pt Germein for a sail and a feed of swimmer crabs. Wow what a fantastic decision that was.
we arrived just before full low tide, to find a great wide dry beach, nearly 700m, that was dry and hard , coupled with a stonking 18-22kns, diagonally across the beach. most of the beach is clean and dry, and the last 200m out to sea has a series of bankswith long shallow pools. the pools can suddenly dissapear, or even join upleaving you no choice but to cross it at speed
there is an occasional rock on the beach they are remnants of the stone ballast dumped by sailing ships when they came to collect a cargo of grain, so it pays to do a slow sail of the area you want to sail on first.
just as I was doing my last run of the day I spotted the bowpost and forward ribs of a rather large wreck right in the middle of the beach.
there was a massive tempation to just sail south into the distance , but I'd like a little local knowledge first, as the beach runs for about 10kms?.
the crabs we caught were soooo tasty, we got 10 on the turn of the tide and that was a great meal for 3 of us.
the caravan park was excellent, clean and friendly, plenty of room to set up the yacht and then wheel it across the road, past the police station
great little pub 50m from the park.
if the wind drops you will need the aerogard, and mossie coils after dark.
little charlotte hooked the biggest flathead Ive ever seen,she got it to the surface, and almost to the steps for me to grab, but it snapped 15lb line and swam off,
then came back to empty the bait from the crab nets
