GRANDSON and DRIFT NETS
Hi again A couple of weeks ago we joined the grandparent's club. This weekend we got to meet our grandson for the first time - very special! He is a little cutie. Recently we have had a Covid outbreak in Minjilang. This has resulted in quite a few of the rangers isolating and many RAT tests - the new world we live in! We have been kept busy monitoring the fishing sector. As we are in between the wet season and dry season weather patterns, we are experiencing light winds and very flat seas. This has made for increased fishing activity. Much of the coast line of Croker Island is not accessible via vehicle and all the coxswain qualified rangers were off due to Covid so we used a drone to be our 'eye in the sky'. The photo below shows a section of coast where there are no tracks - but the drone could check this area - where we had seen a fishing vessel the day before - for evidence of them coming ashore and entering Aboriginal land without a permit. When one of the coxswain r...