Back at Burners

This time last year, we were extracting razorfish from the seabed and cooking them up to eat with pasta in a cream sauce, preferably with sea urchin roe.

This year.... ditto!  The razorfish are humungous this year, so you can bring in a reduced haul and get the same amount of meat.... or you can simply eat more meat!  If you have a boat, you should drift along the rocks and catch plentiful squid - there is a chance you'll snare quite a few in an afternoon, and they are delicious scored and quickly stir fried with vegetables and noodles, with a little teryaki sauce splashed in.

Burners Beach is a 15 minute walk from Point Suttar, on the 'shoelaces' of the 'boot' that is the Yorke Pensinsula in SA.  This place just strikes me; there is something about its hot white sand and sharp umber rocks, its crooked cliffs of sandstone sprinkled with low sea-loving shrubs; combined with its erractically wild weather and clear deep blue waters, that brings out the beachcomber in me.  Other people that stay here on the common ground are likewise water-lovers; fishermen, snorkellers, and all outdoorsy-types.  In 2 weeks, I haven't heard a single generator; it's quite remarkable.  The town of Point Suttar is equally alluring; little fibro shacks with tin water tanks line the shore; each ricketty home threatened by wild winds and eventual (and inevitable) erosion.  I imagine myself spending months at a stretch here, pottering out in the water to catch dinner, or sitting on some half-mended/half-broken balcony overlooking the sweeping bay, observing dolphins play and flirt offshore, or spotting sting rays that swim right up to the beach in a few cm's of water in search of discarded bait.  Could I live here do you think?  Yes.

I'm not quite prepared to say "good bye" because I hope that some day we will return.

 Beware of squid as you reel them in - we both (and the boat) got 'slimed' by a monster squid that took no prisoners!

This year, the flies are quite bad, so we put up our blue 'fly tent' underneath the awning.  This worked a treat!  Here, Jase is barbecuing some capsicum and other vegetables for our dinner.

Bees.....  a real problem in this area.  The best way to deal with them is to float a piece of timber in a large bucket of fresh water (away from your camp).  They will come to drink from miles around, leaving your camp undisturbed.

Razorfishalicius!!!!

A glass of red wine, a lovely sprawling sunset, and fishing with the person you love.  Does life get better?