Jan and Alan rise early and knock on our door to see if we would like to go for a bike ride around the Heritage Trail. I decide not to (as I am still not quite confident riding my bike on the open road)!!! and poor little Lucy must have eaten something which didn’t agree with her as she was unsettled during the night with an ‘upset tummy’. She is such a good little dog she woke alerted us several times during the night to let her out which we did. It brought back memories of having sick children, having to be ‘on call’ during the night. She causes us such little trouble and is such a joy to have with us we are feeling for her. I will spend some mothering her.
I get a phone call from Jan to say they will be finishing the Heritage Trail in about an hour and would I like to meet them in town at the ‘Cornish Kitchen’. This is quite a famous place as there are photos of celebrities on the wall munching into these local delicacies. I agree and before long we are enjoying our pasties all washed down with their lovely coffee.
We decide to spend the afternoon ‘crabbing’. This is a very popular local sport here and Jan takes off to the local fishing shop and comes back armed with 2 crab pots (one each) some frozen bait, a crab measurer and all the information we need to have success.
We pack up our eskies, chairs, sunscreen, bait and crab pots and walk the short distance to the Jetty. We find a spot to set up and before long the crab pots with bait are resting on the sea bed. Nothing happens. I enjoy sitting in the sun with Lucy on my lap talking to every person that passes us by. People are so friendly here.
Further out on the jetty we notice a man with several crab pots out, just pulling the little buggers in so Jan pulls hers up and heads closer to him. Nothing happens. We can’t understand why, with her pot so close to his, why he is getting them and we aren’t. I lose interest after a while and decide to take Lucy back to camp. Nick and Alan follow me but Jan persists.
From our camp we see Jan in the distance, waving he arms around trying to attract our attention. She has caught one – though we find out later it was too small and she had to throw it back. Despite this, she is successful and she arrives back at camp with her bucket filled with 3 lovely, blue swimmers. These will be our entrée’.
I cook a chicken curry but before we have this Jan has prepared the crabs which we will have as our first course. We decide to have a progressive dinner (like we used to have before breathalizers were introduced). The beauty of our situation was we only had to walk a few short steps.
The crab was delicious and she served it with a lovely salad and aoli which complemented the crab perfectly. Then onto us for the curry and cheesecake for dessert. This was a real gourmet dinner which we all thoroughly enjoyed.
Then it was off to bed!
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