Apollo Bay

Well here we are at Apollo Bay one step into Bass Straight. We left Port Fairy at 8am Thursday 19th, motor sailing, 90nm to Apollo we avarage about 4kns an hour = 22hrs , wind 7knts, sea  conditions calm, it was very enjoyable untill it turned dark and that was about 7pm and the fog set in makeing it hard to see,
and there were lights flashing in the distant on the coast, it was all very eerie, I realy think we were seeing things that weren't there.At one stage there were 7 ships detected on the AIS. After midnight it cleared a bit and we could see the stars.
We arrived at Apollo Bay about 5am it was still dark so we floated no far from the marina entrance untill we could see, as we were told it was not easy to entrer the marina due to the swell that runs through the entrance and half of it has a sand bar.7am Friday morning we were safely tied to the warf.
In Port Fairy we met up with 2 other boats going in the same direction as us, allso coming from Adelaide.
They left Port Fairy at 5.30am Thursday arrived in Apollo Bay that evening at about 5pm. As you can see they are much faster boats than us. It is good to chat with them as Patrick has done this trip 5 times.
Apollo Bay is full of activity this weekend as there is a music festival, the street is closed to trafic and there are stalls and buskers, allso a big marquee where all the bands play. This is a yearly event.




Apollo Bay marina

The 3 boats

The marquee

The street

One of the buskers

An Irish group