Mereworth Sound

We decide to just do a little day trip up to the head of Mereworth Sound. We dropped a couple of prawn pots in as we were leaving Strachan Bay. Jim was told by one of his fisherman that he caught a lot of very big prawns up here in that spot. So Jim was excited to give it a go.

Mereworth Sound is where we saw the most active and recent logging activities. There was another logging camp and some old abandoned buildings and docks.

As we turned around and headed back down the sound the wind came up and was blowing pretty hard. We decided to leave the prawn pots out to soak overnight with the plan to pick them up as we headed out the next morning.

When we went back in to Strachan Bay there was a small skiff with 3 people pulling some prawn pots. In the wind! Very low in the water! I didn’t take any pictures of them. I was too busy worried they might fill with water in the wind and the waves and sink! I even made Jim turn around at one point and check on them as I had lost sight of them. Jim said they were in a Boston Whaler and those boats never sink. Three people and 4 prawn pots – it looked like they had barely enough room. When they were finished pulling up the pots they headed back to the little cabin at the entrance to Pack Island.

We went back to our nice little teardrop cove for the night.

Thanks for all the great comments. I’m still not sure how to reply by email. I’m working on getting a few posts done while I have dock wifi and cell service.