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My Best Summer Days
Great adventure, good food and fantastic mates
Wahoo, it’s summer! Well I’ll let you in on a little secret, it is not currently summer. It’s my winter and I’m freezing my butt off. So I’m going to tell you what I would do today — if it was actually summer in my part of the world.
Summer is the glorious time of the year where we have the energy and motivation, not to mention the taste buds, to get on out there and catch our own food. There is nothing more gratifying than catching, cooking your catch and eating it around a campfire, enjoying the taste of accomplishment — not to mention great food, with fantastic mates.
I wake in the early morning and note it’s going to be a 33 degree Celsius day…..oh but I wish, I’ll be lucky if we hit 17 degrees today…….but let’s keep pretending it’s summer!
A great day for foraging through the mangroves. Now I forewarn you, the mangroves will be hot, humid and swarming with sandflies — of which I’m allergic. So I dress in long pants, a long sleeve shirt, closed in shoes and a tonne of insecticide smothered on my face and hands — the only parts of me not covered in clothing.
I stop by the shed and grab a hessian bag, thin rope and my prying hook — which is a length of metal rod curled into a large hook on one end.
