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HWatch out for whales with the cooler weather
I it’s Craig Tomkinson here. that area. We slowly caught a few With the colder weather, more fish but got plagued by un- keep an eye out for whales dersize red emperor. I have never
Noosa to Fraser Coast
by CRAIG TOMKINSON
if you’re planning to go offshore be- seen so many of them out where
cause there are that many of them, which is great, but a bugger when travelling around during the day and at night particularly. If you’re looking for new ground or going to other spots, just take a little speed off. I heard of one boat hitting a whale at the Rainbow Beach fish- ing competition a few years ago, so it does happen.
awhile since I crossed a coastal bar –Imistimedawaveandwegota little wet, which was not a worry, we just got wet.
we were.
We ended up with 10 nice mixed
On the fishing front, my mate Dave Anderson and I finally slipped out off Noosa in my 5m tinnie. It’s been
So, then we headed down Victor Bailey’s Reef way and out wide of
Hopefully this month restrictions on travel ease and the national parks open up again because I would love to slip up to Inskip Point and go camping for a few weeks – do some crabbing, chase squid and slip offshore for a feed of reef fish.
Two different inner axle seals – the one on the left is a Terrain Tamer, it is heavier duty and has a bigger retaining spring, which in turn seals better.
Dave Anderson’s sons Oliver and Sebastian with a nice feed.
My old Toyota LandCruiser 80 Series 1990 1HZ has done a lot of kilometres and I am constantly fix- ing something, though I love that I can do all the work on her and save myself hundreds of dollars a year. Over the past few years she started leaking oil from the back differen- tial into the back drum brakes.
Once out the front on Sunshine Reef, I found a nice bit of ground and anchored up. It was running very hard to the south and the fishing was super quiet, we shifted many times till about midday for one or two fish.
reef fish and headed back to the boat ramp and loaded the boat be- fore dark. It was a very slow day fishing-wise but Dave and I had a great time anyway.
I might even tow my 5m tinnie up to Waddy Point or to Sandy Cape on Fraser Island, which is an exer- cise but a load of fun. From memo- ry my mate Dave Kowitz has never been fishing up there, and I have not launched a boat off the beach on Fraser for about 14 years.
So around every 20,000- 30,000km, I would pull the back wheel off and take the rear right back axle out then replace the inner back axle seal with either a genuine or not genuine seal. To be frank, they looked identical. Then I would wash the brake pads down with pet- rol and repack or replace the wheel bearings at the same time.
I got sick of replacing the seals with the same thing, so this time I ordered a Terrain Tamer seal, and the difference in size and con- struction was so much stronger and better looking. When I put the axle back in it would normally slide in easily, but with the Terrain Tamer seal, I had to push the axle hard to get it into the seal. But it’s been in for about 5000km and not leaked a drop of oil yet.
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