The wet season begins
The creek is starting to run again
A cray fish climbs a waterfall
Eels swim upstream in search of drowned animals to eat
More eels can be spotted
An eel presumably eating something
Lawyer cane palm
Cutting cane
The flexible material is useful for weaving baskets
Cutting cane to 75 cm lengths
Splitting cane to form lashing material
Tying the spokes of the basket together
Using a twinning technique to weave the start of the basket
2 lengths of split cane are twisted around the ribs of the basket
The rest of the basket is made using standard over and under weaving
Finished basket
cutting7 x 25 cm lengths for the funnel
Hammering holes into the ground to hold the funnel ribs
The shape of the funnel
Using standard weave to form the funnel
Pulling the completed funnel out of the ground
Inserting the funnel into the basket
The fish can easily swim in but not so easily swim out
Putting the trap in water, no bait was used
Checking trap the next day
A small fish was caught
Making a stone funnel to help catch things
An interesting frog
A small prawn was caught this time
A larger prawn this time
Another fish
A freshwater crab
The crab clings tenaciously to the basket requiring encouragement to leave
Crab in the pot
Prawn visible in the creek
Later a prawn was caught in the trap
And another prawn, if left long enough the trap will often catch something
Now in the dry season, testing the trap in a stagnant pool
Probably the largest fish I've caught yet in this small creek
The wet season began again, over a year after making the trap
Checking the hut conditions
The natural draft furnace before and after the deluge
The heavy rain destroyed the furnace after record rains and will need rebuilding
The thatched workshop still stands but is in miserable condition and will need maintenance
The trap got washed away with the flood water but it's easy to make another one if needed