Little Bay (11th February '07)

Footie update: We stopped a two game losing streak with a 2-2 draw last night against a team calling themselves Band of Orange. There seem to be several sides in the competition who play in Dutch national shirts and these were another example. I managed to open my goal-scoring account with the late equaliser too. A sweet side-on volley after a shot had come crashing back off the crossbar. I'm slowly getting back into it but I'm still pretty shabby!

After last week's adventures at Wattamolla I went down to the shops and bought myself a snorkel, mask and fins and on Sunday they got their first outing at Little Bay which is one of Sydney's southerly ocean beaches. I was a bit apprehensive after last week's blue-bottle attacks and the fact that there's a 5m great white shark patrolling Sydney's beaches at the moment. Its been around for about 3 weeks now and they keep closing beaches as it keeps popping up here and there. Its apparently getting a bit more confident around boats and things too!

Fishy fishy

Little Bay is quite well sheltered though and despite choppy conditions out at sea the water in the bay was calm and clear and absolutely teeming with fish. There were no really big things about but lots of colourful smaller fish including a few spectacular wrasse. There was a nice bait ball and small shoals of sand whiting, bream, garfish and cuttlefish as well as loads of stripy things which I don't know. Quite remarkable for a little beach right in the city.

A particularly well camouflaged flathead