We have been in Karumba for a couple of days, local population here 600, but at this time of the year the town’s 3 caravan parks are chockers with people from down south escaping to warmer weather and the fishing for which Karumba is renowned - many bring their boats with them, we counted at least 60 boat trailers parked at the boat ramp.
Karumba is the centre of the Gulf’s prawning and barramundi (which interestingly in the local Aboriginal dialect means “big scale”) industries. At present the water is a bit cold for catching barra, they like it about 32 degrees. Yesterday we went out on a charter and were happy to both get some good sized blue salmon. We also caught quite a few grunter but they were a bit below size and had to go back. They are very strict with size and bag limits here which is good news. We now have enough fish on ice to keep us fed for quite a few days.
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