Sunshine and blue water Maroochydore

Leaving Iluka was a great decision, we made it to Maroochydore a bit after lunch on Tuesday. We have booked into Cotton Tree Caravan Park which is great, we are virtually 150mtrs from the sand of the bay which feeds straight out into the sea.

The town has grown quite a lot since we were last in the area about 8 years ago but this little sections is away from the hustle and you can walk to everything you need.

Believe it or not you can catch fish in this water so close to a city, our neighbours caught a 40cm bream! My turn next.

Sunshine state

As you would all be aware NSW and in particular Iluka/Yamba has had a bit of rain. We were joined by Mal, Cog, Josh, Luke, Cindy, Megan and our Joel over the long weekend which was all good until about 2pm on the Saturday, we all braved the weather on Saturday night to help Josh celebrate his 30th Birthday but Mal, Cog and the crew decided home was a much more comfortable place to be and packed up in the rain.

Joel decided to tough it out and stay at least another night, after all, being the only tent left in the camping ground was no indication packing up would have been a better idea!

At 6am Sunday morning Joel knocked on our door to help him pack up his tent as he was floating on his swag. Joel made it home safely after a very ,long, slow and wet drive.

Michael and I decided we would start packing the boat and trailer up as we only had another 2 nights booked. That night we had another torrential downpour totalling 11 inches of rain in 48 hours, the decision to move on was not too hard,  we were half packed anyway, Queensland here we come.

Fishing at Iluka

Mick and I had a good day on the water at Iluka, we had put in crab pots the day before and caught one very nice buck, also very tasty!

The day before we were sitting in our 3.45mt tinnie when this big monster came past with the aid of two tug boats, apparently they take supplies to Lord Howe Island via the port up the river from Iluka.
Made us feel very tiny in our tinnie.

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Anchorage Park Iluka

Our caravan park is situated right across the road from the water with it's own boat ramp and jetty. The tree's out the front are turning beautiful autumn tones and the sunsets across the water are stunning, the pelicans kiow when fish are being cleaned and arrive for the free food.

Woody Head and 10 Mile Beach

On the way into Iluka you come past 10 Mile Beach & Woody Head national park camping ground. This is a great camp right on the bay with open fires permitted and wood supplied!

Sorry all the photo's seem to include beaches and oceans, I promise I will get some inland photo's eventually! 

Finally Fishing

After a few days of organising the boat and trailer we launched the "ss minnow" (formally known as the garden gnome for the last few years) and headed out onto the waterways here at Iluka. We caught a few small bream and a couple of flathead for dinner.
The day was beautiful and sunny and the water just sparkled!
Sitting in the boat you can look back to Iluka and Yamba and be amazed just how close they are over the water.

That's Iluka on the left and Yamba on the right.