Oyster Cove

I have spent the last week enjoying the great summer weather we have been having.   Day after day of clear sunny weather with temperatures in the mid to high 20's.  

 We took the kids  fishing at Little Oyster Cove.   Summer caught  the only fish for the day,  an undersized flathead.   She was very pleased with herself.   She managed to catch the fish with a lure,  I was a bit surprised  given that flathead usually reside on the bottom.   Unlike anywhere around Melbourne,  the rocks here are covered with shellfish,  mostly oysters but also muscles.

Oyster cove is the next cove north from Little Oyster Cove Kettering.  It is  about 5 minutes by car from the house.  It is bigger and more open to the weather.   It is notable that Oyster Cove was where Truganini was settled in 1856.   She is  considered the last full blooded Tasmanian Aborigine.    The treatment of Tasmanian Aborigines in the 1830's is hard to fathom.  They were essentially rounded up and deported,  some to Flinders Island some to Melbourne.  Most died from disease.

Weather wise,  today was described by a local as a stinker.   It was 35.   I picked the kids up from school at 1450,  we were at Conningham beach by 1500.  It was lovely in the water,  cool and refreshing.  Evidently lots of the other school mums had the same idea,  kids had a great time.


gaz