The battle of the Bantry Bay (Crustacean v Moondance).
We were sent away with fine instructioins from Jane Yeoward on how to catch prawns and langustine in a collapsable pot, time to give it a try!
We unpacked the small wiry pot, first problem, how to keep it on the bottom? We found some suitable rocks and loaded the pot with the most wonderful concoction of fish guts, dead crabs (from inside said fish guts) and 2 fish heads; the Crustacean would NOT be able to resist this lot, all we had to do was lower it over the side, wait for the morning and haul in our catch (providing we were strong enough to haul it all aboard).

The morning came, we hauled in the pot and the crustacean HAD enjoyed our offerings, only trouble was that they pinched it all to eat on their own table, there were no fish heads and no prawns, out smarted by a nearly blind sideways walking beastie! We figured that the crabs had been in and not only departed themselves but carted off their booty through the entrance, no mean feat, look how small the hole is and its half way up the side of the pot. Crustacean 1 Moondance 0. We live to fight another day, prawn pot mark 2 is on the drawing board!

Not really quite so sporting but a couple of days later we pulled up alongside a boat pulling in its pots and got our haul of langoustine that way, boy they were good!

                                                             

Prawns are not the only 'fruits de mer' that we have been feasting on, mussels came of the underside of a pontoon in the bay we were anchored in by the handful, whilst picking we were being watched by someone else who would have liked the mussels!

Meanwhile back on board, bored with scrabble we decided to play hide and seek 'you'll never find me in here'!

The fridge had packed up (if your not paying for your boat you are fixing it, I don't really think that anyone actually has time to sail them!)

I had a fabulous walk over the local mountains. It is an incredibly beautiful place, very rugged. Its like the lake district but without the people. On a 5 hour walk I saw precisely noone!

This is a view of an anchorage at the top of Bantry Bay (the haze is 'coz it really was a beautiful sunny day, now we don't get many of those over here!)