Monday the 6/8/12 we sailed 2 hours to the mainland and took a berth at the maria in Roselle Bay for a night to refuel, water and stock up supplies. Water is our biggest problem as we only carry 200lts. You would be surprised at how much you use each day. The marina cost $41 for the night, we made good use of the showers, and washing machines. I caught a bus to Yeppoon to stock up on a few groceries. In all it took me about 21/2 hours Met Moore yachty's and had a drink with them at the local sailing club.
7.30am Tuesday we sailed to Freshwater bay ( a good anchorage on the mainland) we arrived at 3pm. Later in the evening Seabird arrived with a boat call Cartref. Wednesday morning we all sailed to Island Head Creek all so on the mainland. The Creek offers delightful anchorages and pretty surroundings. It is part of the Shoal water Bay Army training area. We stayed at Island Head Creek for 3 nights, went for a walk on the beach and got eaten by sand fly or midge's. Left 2pm 11/08/2012 and sailed overnight to Scawfell Island anchored at 2.30pm Sunday 12th. Scawfell Island itself rises from the horizon at a distance of about 35 miles, is about 35miles from the coast and about 65miles from Airlie Beach. We went ashore lovely beach, no marked walking tracks.
We left 9am Tuesday morning and sailed 27miles to Goldsmith Island, anchored overnight and and sailed to Lindeman Island stayed overnight and left for Airlie Beach at 8am in the morning. Anchored near one of John's mates that left Adelaide about 2 years ago. We had a short dingy ride to the Sailing Club.
A lot of activity going on around Airlie Beach, race week, fire work display, loud music, the RAFF precision flying team put on a great show.
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Hi good to read your blog, sounds like you are having a good time of it. the weather in the pics look like that is in your favour too. Jeeez it has been freezing here today and a lot of wide spread damage from trees falling. Keep safe will ring you soon Jill
ReplyDeleteIt is good to see that someone is reading the blog, we haveing a great time and we have made some lasting friends. Out at the Islands we don't allways have service.
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