tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68525116134978455722024-03-14T20:25:04.522+10:30 Adventures on VentureWelcome to Adventures on Venture, the continuing story of our adventures and misadventures as we sail around the outside of this wonderful country, Australia!Terry Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06639913168314485282noreply@blogger.comBlogger95125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852511613497845572.post-32993018290095469982020-08-03T10:39:00.004+09:302020-08-03T10:39:45.531+09:30We lived the dream and survived :-)<div>Venture was sold back in March 2020. Unfortunately, due to the mess that 2020 is for everyone, the new owners were not able to pick her up from Adelaide to take her back to Apollo Bay in Victoria. So we had our last sail end of July to deliver her to the new owners.</div><div><br /></div><div>We sailed her to Portland where they took over and sailed back to her new home in Apollo Bay a couple of days ago. </div><div><br /></div><div>Here's what they said of their trip.</div><div><div><br /></div><div>"Venture sailed like a champion! We left Portland with 1 reef in the main and yankee / staysail up. Smooth ride (beam reach virtually all the way) but wind picked up quite a bit overnight and we were making way much faster than I had anticipated. My trip plan was based on 5knts, we were ripping along - 6 then 7 the 8+ knots even with staysail furled. Then as we approached and rounded Cape Otway the wind really picked up (20-23 knots) so we just ran on the reefed main. I was amazed at how well she sailed and handled the sea just on the main. Took it in her stride [snip]. All good learning about how she sails though. At one stage we were topping 9-10 knots (spilling most of the wind off the main). Auto helm handled it really well too"</div></div><div><br /></div><div>I'm sure they will be happy with her. She looked after us for 7 years or so and it was a sad day when we took down our house flag and left her behind.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TcFVFPzLd9o/XydioPUH-UI/AAAAAAAARUs/bgSLdIAy5wAtCxlDuMIKrNvAh2-kZmGUACPcBGAsYHg/s5333/DSC_0776.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="5333" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TcFVFPzLd9o/XydioPUH-UI/AAAAAAAARUs/bgSLdIAy5wAtCxlDuMIKrNvAh2-kZmGUACPcBGAsYHg/s640/DSC_0776.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-38zPlep5tOI/XydioJtvNNI/AAAAAAAARUs/TuPbxyTuaV8IGjPN4gMGBFpyK-0ztIUdQCPcBGAsYHg/s5333/DSC_0772.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="5333" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-38zPlep5tOI/XydioJtvNNI/AAAAAAAARUs/TuPbxyTuaV8IGjPN4gMGBFpyK-0ztIUdQCPcBGAsYHg/s640/DSC_0772.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Davohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17138702505272639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852511613497845572.post-13036641268485017192018-03-22T06:59:00.001+10:302018-04-12T16:46:12.713+09:30Leaving Macquarie Harbour. <div dir="ltr">
Back out through Hells Gate.<br />
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We're heading down to Port Davey now, 100nm down the east coast after an amazing experience in Macquarie Harbour and the Gordon River. </div>
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We'll be out of touch for another week or so.</div>
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Davohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17138702505272639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852511613497845572.post-12461893362847666452018-03-16T06:18:00.000+10:302018-03-22T06:20:31.987+10:30Reflections on the Gordon RiverOn our way around Tassie, we stopped in Macquarie Harbour for a while. This is a massive harbour on the west coast of Tassie 16 times the size of Sydney Harbour surrounded by wilderness.<br />
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The Gordon River flows into this harbour and you can travel 20 miles up the river through some pretty impressive scenery with double the impact.<br />
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The river water is dark brown, almost black due to tannins in the water from the temperate rain forest vegetation which when the river is still, give amazing reflections. More on Macquarie harbour in other posts but I thought a collection of reflections worth a post by itself.<br />
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<br />Davohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17138702505272639572noreply@blogger.com1Southwest TAS 7139, Australia-42.586450626934642 145.72521157128904-42.609837626934642 145.68487107128902 -42.563063626934643 145.76555207128905tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852511613497845572.post-38758993922295561922018-03-11T16:55:00.000+10:302018-04-12T21:05:33.771+09:30Macquarie Harbour - Kelly BasinThis was our first stop from Strahan in Macquarie Harbour. It's a large bay at the Eastern end of the harbour with some really interesting walks through the areas history.<br />
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We spent 2 days there exploring the abandoned towns of East and West Pillinger which were once thriving communities housing hundreds of people and included quarries, timber mills and smelting works. But it only lasted about 20 years all told from around 1890 to 1910! It was abandoned when Strahan was chosen as the main port in the harbour.<br />
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There's a bush camp near where we anchored in a very sheltered spot at the south east end of the bay called "Joes Corner".<br />
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We flew the drone there and Terry actually caught it :-)<br />
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East Pillinger is overgrown but the walks through the temperate rain forest are just spectacular.<br />
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There was a cache in a wall in one of the buildings. The USB drive held copies of the photos inside. We added some that we took in East Pillinger. <br />
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<br />Davohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17138702505272639572noreply@blogger.com0Kelly Basin Track, Southwest TAS 7139, Australia-42.369019631169309 145.54444456240162-42.374885131169307 145.53435956240162 -42.36315413116931 145.55452956240163tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852511613497845572.post-61367155094272843782016-11-11T10:27:00.000+10:302017-08-09T16:20:55.034+09:30Mackay to Keppels or close encouter to moonstruck<br />
Back in Mackay and we met up with Pierce and Janine before we left heading south. We'd become friends during the trip north in different anchorages and a more lovely couple you couldn't hope to meet!<br />
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But for some reason, they think they need two hulls for cruising instead of one. Go figure..<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The footpath along the docks at Mackay Marina. A lovely spot.</td></tr>
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<br />We left Mackay end of October heading south to Bundaberg. Before we left, we decided not to fill the fuel tank at the fuel dock but to use the last of the diesel in the jerries we carry on deck instead. That turned out to be a bad decision and more on that later..<br />
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We chose Bundy this time to lay over for the cyclone season because we needed to get some work done on the boat while we went back to Adelaide for Christmas. We've met people along the way who recommend Bundaberg because the hard stand rates are quite reasonable and the trades are all there apart from a rigger.<br />
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First stop was the southern anchorage at Curlew. Protection from the north but the anchorage is a bit rolly so we only stayed one night before moving on to the Duke Islands.<br />
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We anchored next to Hunter island which is a lovely spot to hang around for a while. We spent three days in there in the end and took a couple of trips onto the beach. Lots of deer on the island and a lovely long sandy beach.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hunter island is a lovely quiet anchorage but you wouldn't want to be there in a strong westerly.</td></tr>
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This chap pulled in next to us and proceeded to drop his anchor almost on top of ours. As he pulled in, I thought he was a bit close and pointed out where our anchor was (about 30 meters north of us) but he ignored me.<br />
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I've no idea why he anchored there as there was heaps of room just a bit further north that is too shallow for us but ideal for a cat. We've found it a bit annoying that a lot of cats take the deeper anchorages making it difficult to find a spot sometimes in a full keeler.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anchored just a bit close</td></tr>
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About 4 hours later, the tide changed. Multi hulls tend to lie to the wind a lot more than our full keel mono which is affected by the current a lot more so we swung with the current (now heading north) and he basically sat still. He eventually noticed things were not right and moved further away. When he pulled up his anchor, he found it was actually under our boat and I had to fend him off our stern. Maybe he'll learn a lesson from it but there were no apologies, just angry looks.<br />
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We left Hunter island and headed further south down to Island head Creek. We motored all the way as there was very little wind and what was there was directly behind us. We dropped anchor in the northern anchorage at Island Head Creek to shelter from the northerlies.<br />
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When I checked our fuel level, I found we were low on diesel (about 40 litres in the tank). We carry 80 liters in jerry cans on the deck but I'd emptied the last two into the tanks (40 litres) only a few days ago so we had no reserve which was a real worry. No sign of diesel in the bilge and none coming out the exhaust. 40 litres is good for about 20 hours or more of motoring so it was a real mystery.<br />
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At the time, I was worried that I'd emptied the jerries into the aft water tank instead! The filler for the diesel is right next to the filler for the aft tank and it's always worried me that this could happen. I took the top off the aft tank to check and luckily, it was diesel free! But we still had a decent distance to go before we could get some fuel so I bought 20 litres off a friendly cruiser in the anchorage to ensure we had a reserve just in case.<br />
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The lesson I learned from this was that you need to dip the tank instead of trusting the fuel guage. The bottom of the tank is in the bilge so it's quite narrow meaning there's actually a lot less in there than you think when the levels get low and we'd never run the tank that low before. I sort of knew this.. Go figure.<br />
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We stayed there one night and moved down to Rosslyn Bay marina the following day to fill the tanks! <br />
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We did a bit of a walk on Great Keppel Island from Long Beach back to Monkey Beach. The paths are well defined and it's quite an easy walk. <br />
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I've no idea what this boat was doing there on Long Beach but it was locked up with nobody around. <br />
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While in Rosslyn Bay, we did an awesome walk up to the top of the hill next to the marina. Definitely worth the damage to legs and wind!<br />
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<br />Davohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17138702505272639572noreply@blogger.com0Kippel Islands, QLD 4700, Australia-23.178433 150.95771560000003-23.412068499999997 150.63499210000003 -22.9447975 151.28043910000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852511613497845572.post-34829628189309496872016-10-02T11:14:00.000+10:302017-08-07T23:48:45.465+09:30Airlie Beach South to Mackay or Kayaks to SwallowsWe left Airlie early heading south back to Mackay to catch a plane back to Adelaide for our grandie Peter's third birthday.<br />
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First stop was back at Macona inlet where we took the dinghy in to the beach at the northern end to have a look around.<br />
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No trails to follow but we enjoyed the serenity :-)<br />
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We stayed a couple of nights and headed south again to Linderman Island. We really like this anchorage.. It's basically a really large bay sheltered on the East and South by Shaw Island and the North and West by Lindeman. Lot's of sandy beaches and very peaceful surroundings.<br />
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While there this time, we broke out the inflatable kayaks! We carry two on board but rarely use them mainly because they are a real hastle to blow them up and re-pack them afterwards. But it's fun when we do get them out.<br />
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We were anchored in the second bay from the western end of Lindeman so we hopped in the kayaks and went around the point into the first bay.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">About half a mile or a bit less than a kilometer</td></tr>
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It was quite peaceful when we left the boat :-)<br />
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On the way back though, it was a different story. The wind had blown up, there was a significant current against us and my kayak was deflating! It was really hard work right until we got back to the boat and by that time, both ends of my kayak were sticking up in the air.<br />
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Terry was laughing so much she didn't take a picture :-)<br />
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We stayed a couple of nights at Lindeman then headed directly back to Mackay to avoid thunderstorms predicted for the next day. It was a relatively pleasant 6 hour passage sailing SSE in a Northerly wind at around 10 to 15 knots.<br />
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We were overtaken on the way by a couple of light day sailors flying their kites. We rarely get our asymmetric spinnaker out as it's tricky to find the right breeze. 15 knots from behind just doesn't work, we need around 10 knots from 80 deg to 120 apparent on either side. More wind and it can get hairy and if the wind is too far aft, it keeps collapsing. We've got a spinnaker pole attached to the front of the mast but that just adds another complication and I've not worked out how to use it yet..<br />
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We left Venture in Mackay while we headed back for the birthday party.<br />
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The undercover car park in Mackay is home to a bunch of swallows.. Not very good pics but it's pretty spectacular to watch them fly in and out. I believe they are called "welcome swallows" and everywhere we go, when we anchor, we're greeted by a few who drop by for a looksee. Aptly named!<br />
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<br />Davohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17138702505272639572noreply@blogger.com044 Mulherin Dr, Mackay Harbour QLD 4740, Australia-21.11255634053175 149.22628783620894-21.119962840531748 149.21620283620894 -21.105149840531752 149.23637283620894tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852511613497845572.post-2269961187344451392016-09-28T17:15:00.000+09:302017-08-02T17:17:28.315+09:30Hamilton to Airlie Beach or Haircuts to Gecko.We left Hamilton to head further north into the Whitsundays.<br />
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First stop was Cid Harbour. This is a great anchorage and a favorite for cruisers in this area. It's on the North West side of Whitsunday Island and last time we were here in 2015, we did the climb up to the peak where the view is just stunning but the walk was a killer. This time around we were much to lazy to try that again.<br />
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I had my winter cut there though.. I really wanted to keep it like this but Terry thought it might be just a tad weird. <br />
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From Cid we headed into Maconna Inlet which is one of the two big North/South facing inlets on the southern end of Hook Island.<br />
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It's an all weather anchorage, quite shallow but good holding. There's a quite extensive reef on the Eastern side of the anchorage at the top which is exposed at low tide and worth checking out but we didn't get any pics this time.<br />
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On the way in, we were overtaken by (what looked like) an ex-ferry about 40 meters long who charged up about 50 meters clear of our starboard side right on the edge of the channel. I moved over to the port side to give him some room but he barreled along straight into the shallows and grounded.<br />
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They managed to get it off the ground after a short while with lots of wash from the prop in reverse, backed away and headed off to a different anchorage.. Fairly embarrassed I'd say. Again, no pics though, too busy trying to keep out of their way.<br />
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We had a visit from a couple of crested terns who hung around for a while.<br />
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From there we headed up around Hook Island to the Stonehaven (Caves Cove) anchorage and spent a couple of nights there on a mooring before heading over to Airlie Beach for supplies.<br />
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We had to go into the marina this time around. Last time we anchored off the sailing club in among the moorings but we found out since then that our insurance company will not cover us anchored at Airlie or a number of other bays in the same area. They don't really say why and they can't even give us exact locations for the "exclusion" so it's pretty difficult to figure out where we can and can't anchor on the coast by Airlie Beach. Strange.<br />
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From Goldsmith, we headed over to the south east anchorage at Lindeman. The anchorage is somewhat exposed to the south east trade winds but sheltered to a large extent by Shaw island. The bay between the islands is huge, deep and calm making it a very nice place to visit.<br />
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Lindeman itself has a failed resort on it which we didn't visit this time round but we did break out the hammock for a while on the beach.<br />
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We thought we'd give Hamilton Island a go next so we spent a couple of hours motoring in less than 10 knots of wind to get up there. It took a while to get into the marina as you have to be escorted in so we watched a couple of planes land. It's a nice place! Expensive and geared for tourists but worth a short visit. Nice bakery and free buses that do a circuit of the island hop on hop off style.<br />
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There are some pretty awesome sculptures on display and for sale on the main street!<br />
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Just before full dark, hundreds of bats start moving around.. We tried to get some photo's but it's impossible to capture them at least with the Lumix camera we had with us. Here's the best of our attempts :-) The dark blurs are bats believe it or not :-)<br />
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The marina looks pretty cool from the pub balcony at night! Nice fish and chips too! Terry played the pokies while I drank the ale :-)<br />
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<br />Davohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17138702505272639572noreply@blogger.com0Lindeman Island, Queensland 4805, Australia-20.4447841 149.04105040000002-20.4745411 149.0007099 -20.4150271 149.08139090000003tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852511613497845572.post-62815033345501287622016-09-15T15:50:00.000+09:302017-07-05T15:54:23.582+09:30Mackay Northbound or from rock art to a scary lee shoreFrom Mackay, we headed north into the Whitsunday group of islands for the second time.<br />
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First stop was the Scawfell in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Cumberland_Islands_National_Park" target="_blank">South Cumberland</a> group of islands. The crossing was a good one and we sailed almost all the way. The anchorage is a deep bay on the North West side of the island with good protection from the trade winds. It took two attempts to anchor and we stayed two nights in the end along with 5 or 6 other boats including SeaSay who we have shared anchorages with before. Crystal clear waters and a lovely beach.<br />
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We took the dinghy into the beach and had a bit of a walk around.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We followed it inland a bit till it got too rough for our old legs.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And lonely Dave :-)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I had to help Terry the artist with this.. It's something we've done in a few places now and I find it fascinating to find the balance points of different rocks. Good fun!</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A curious mix of physics and art</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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We moved on to Brampton Island which was where we met a whole bunch of butterflys last time we came through. It's a lovely spot but quite eerie as the resort has been closed for years and so it's very neglected. We stopped in at Western Beach this time on the (you guessed it) west side of the island. The fringing reef is separated from the beaches by a narrow and shallow channel. After we anchored, a bunch of Macgregor trailer sailors came past us and went right over the reef into the channel behind and anchored there. <br />
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We hopped into the dinghy and went ashore. The tide was falling at the time and we planned to be away for a couple of hours which would have made it high tide when we got back so we pulled the dinghy up the beach a bit and put the anchor in the tree line. We followed a walking trail to Dinghy Bay on the south east of the island. It was a lot further than we thought :-) A lovely walk though. We've found Brampton to be a great spot to visit! It's a national park and the trails are easy to follow and reasonably well signed. <br />
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However, it took a lot longer than we thought so when we got back, the dinghy was about 100 metres from the sea. Bugger.. The beach there shelves really slowly so even after we'd dragged it down to the sea, we still had to drag it about 20 metres further before the bloody thing would float. We were both exhausted by the time we got back to the boat so we crashed and had a late tea.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Venture is out there somewhere :-)</td></tr>
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The following day, we headed off to Stingray Bay on Goldsmith Island.<br />
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This anchorage is on the south side of the island and we chose it because the expected weather overnight was 5 to 10 knots from the North. Boy did we get a surprise!<br />
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A front came through in the early hours and the wind swung round to the south at 20kts gusting 25 or more putting us on a lee shore in rising seas. We were woken by the anchor alarm at 2am and when we turned the instruments on, we found ourselves with 1m under the keel when we had anchored in 10m of water at near low tide! We decided to get out of there and head around to the other side of the island so we started the engine and headed up towards the anchor. We bumped the sand a couple of times as we headed out into deeper water.<br />
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I went forward and started pulling the anchor up while Terry stayed by the wheel. But I could not get the anchor to break free of the sea bed! The seas were mounting and the bow was pitching about 2 meters when the waves came through. I tried pulling on the anchor when the bow was down but as it came up, the chain was pulled back over the gypsy (see below). The anchor was properly wedged or the chain had wrapped around a rock. I gave up and went back to the cockpit to find Terry in a right state.. She had been panicking as it was pitch black and the plot showed rocks off the starboard bow but she couldn't see them.<br />
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We talked it over and decided she would go back to bed while I kept station over the anchor until daylight. The only other option really was to slip the anchor entirely (let all the chain out) with a buoy attached so we could pick it up another day. But I was confident that worst of the weather had passed us so I was happy to hang there until it calmed down again. Amazingly enough, Terry actually went back to sleep!<br />
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So I spent nearly 3 hours at the helm watching the plot and trying to keep the boat in one place over the anchor using the engine. It was actually not that difficult once I figured out that with the engine just above idle and left rudder, it basically sat there head to the wind. The engine just counterbalanced the wind and we were basically hove-to using the engine. Occasionally I'd have to give it a squirt of power to bring the bow back into the wind but on the whole, it was relatively easy, just really tedious.. <br />
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In the morning, I got Terry up and we freed the anchor by giving it about 10 meters of slack and motoring slowly against the pull of the anchor chain. It didn't work first time round (clockwise) but second time round (anti-clockwise) it unwound from whatever it was stuck on and the anchor came up cleanly but with a 5 degree bend in the shank!<br />
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We went around the other side of the island to Western Beach and anchored again with a sigh of relief. I had a kip..<br />
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<br />Davohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17138702505272639572noreply@blogger.com0Brampton Island, Queensland 4805, Australia-20.8080283 149.2736268-20.8377133 149.23328629999997 -20.7783433 149.3139673tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852511613497845572.post-65419601837558286592016-09-12T11:08:00.000+09:302017-08-09T21:58:07.272+09:30Drifting over the coral at Scawfell IslandThe reef at Scawfell is extensive and we spent some time in the dinghy drifting over it trying to get a better look at a large fish playing near the surface but had no luck.<br />
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<br />Davohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17138702505272639572noreply@blogger.com0Scawfell Island, Queensland 4805, Australia-20.8672192 149.61609829999998-20.926568200000002 149.53541729999998 -20.8078702 149.69677929999997tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852511613497845572.post-69060636668783857942016-09-05T17:06:00.000+09:302017-07-05T10:51:37.504+09:30North to MackayWe left Rosslyn Bay and headed further north aiming for Mackay. As usual, we planned carefully to do the trip in small hops all during the day which meant some early morning departures but means we rarely (if ever) end up entering an anchorage in the dark.<br />
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We headed for Port Clinton first as we stopped just north of that anchorage in Pearl Bay last time we headed north. It's a large, well protected area with a lot of small shallow creeks but anchorages for all weather. We stopped on the western shore a couple of miles south of the entrance in 3 meters of water but expecting another 5 meters at high tide. Tides are getting much bigger now as we head north.<br />
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We only stayed overnight and in the morning moved on to Island Head Creek just 20 miles north. This is another large area with mangroves and creeks suitable for anchorage in all weathers. We stopped this time in the second inlet about 2.5 miles from the entrance. We put our nose into the first inlet but we were put off by very shallow water and with the big tides, we tried further down and found a nice spot just inside the inlet near the northern bank. There were a couple of other boats in there but nobody we knew and we wanted a rest before the next leg.<br />
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We stayed there for a few nights enjoying the peace, did some exploring of the creek and had a quite unsuccessful fishing expedition. <br />
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We headed off early for the 40 mile leg up to the Duke Islands. We decided to go the inside route this time as we visited the Percy's on the outside route last time.<br />
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Heading around Townshend Island, we hit 9.5 knots at one point in 15kts relative wind on the port quarter but that was in a 2 knot northbound current :-)<br />
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We anchored in a beautiful spot behind Hunter island which looks quite exposed but is well sheltered from the SE Trades. We headed into the beach for sundowners and toasted an absolutely glorious sunset behind Venture at anchor.<br />
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From the Duke islands, we headed up to a small island called Curlew 30 miles north west. The anchorage off the northern beach was lovely but the trades were blowing hard and we spent an uncomfortable night with 25kt bullets (sudden wing gusts) coming over the hills and a fair swell coming around the southern point. So we only spent one night there and headed off to Mackay the following morning.<br />
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The trip over was very rolly with the wind on the port quarter and not quite enough to stabilise the boat against the easterly swell. But we did manage to sail most of the day with the engine off.<br />
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<br />Davohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17138702505272639572noreply@blogger.com0Mackay QLD 4740, Australia-21.1424956 149.18214690000002-21.1721151 149.1418064 -21.1128761 149.22248740000003tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852511613497845572.post-14102050373890677522016-08-20T07:10:00.000+09:302017-05-28T07:11:52.133+09:30Lady Musgrave IslandI thought I'd add some more about Lady Musgrave.<br />
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As I said in the last post, we were only there for one full day before we had to leave due to predicted strong northerlies. The anchorage is protected well at low tide but the swells come right over the reef at high tide so it can be quite uncomfortable in strong winds at high tide. So I'm told that is, we didn't hang around to find out :-)<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Musgrave_Island" target="_blank">The island</a> is a real treasure! A coral cay just 35 miles East of the common jump off point at Pancake Creek. The island itself is sand with a lot of trees and we took a walk right around on the beach.<br />
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We didn't get into the water there unfortunately as the wind had picked up but next time, we most definitely will! The reefs look magical and the water was crystal clear when we anchored, not so much the next day though.<br />
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We did get onto the island though for a walk around. In fact, we did walk all the way around and through the middle :-)<br />
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<br />Davohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17138702505272639572noreply@blogger.com0Lady Musgrave Island, Queensland 4805, Australia-23.9073276 152.3924561-23.9145856 152.3823711 -23.9000696 152.4025411tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852511613497845572.post-46335853762820106562016-08-17T22:04:00.000+09:302017-05-28T07:15:11.806+09:30Bundy to Rosslyn Bay or Pancakes to tropical coldness<br />
We left Bundy at dawn (sorry Terry) for the long trip north to Pancake Creek. 64 miles at an average cruising speed of 5 knots makes for a very long day and to get there in daylight meant we had to really push things along.<br />
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We made it in just over 11 hours in the end at an average speed of 5.9 knots. Motor sailed most of the way with less than 10 knots of wind from the south-east (right over our right shoulder) but we managed to turn the motor off for about 2 hours or so during the trip. A very roly day on the water.<br />
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Pancake creek is a nice anchorage and we had fond memories from the last time we were there but this time round, it took three goes to get the anchor to hold! The first two times in different places we hit rock shelves and trying to set the anchor just gave rumbling noises as the anchor dragged over the rock. We got it to set at the third attempt finding some sand deep enough to grab. Both of us were a bit pissed off by the end of the exercise but we were heartened when the next boat in had similar trouble :-). We had pancakes for tea!<br />
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After tea, I expected to have hot water after running the engine most of the day but no, the system I set up to heat the water from the engine had failed! A pump I bought to circulate water from a heat exchanger through the hot water tank stopped working and was blowing the in-line fuse. It's a year old and dirt cheap but still.. Bugger.<br />
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We spent three nights there in the end with "sundowners" on two different sand banks. It's an odd feeling to be sitting down drinking wine with fellow yachties and you find yourself surrounded by water as the tide comes in. In the end, it's a bit of a rush to get everything packed away in the dinghies to get back home before the chair legs get wet.<br />
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From there we headed out to Lady Musgrave. We missed this stop the last time we came north due to weather conditions so we were determined to get there this time. It's the southernmost coral cay in the Barrier Reef chain and part of the Capricornia group of islands. A magic spot with an island at one end of a huge lagoon surrounded by coral reefs.<br />
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I had a cunning plan. It went, we head off from pancake creek and sail to Lady Musgrave arriving just at slack water on the low tide. Slack water because the lagoon empties through a very narrow channel so going in on an ebb tide is a bit dodgy. So we dawdled along with me feeling quite smug as another boat that left before us headed off at top speed.<br />
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We arrived next to the reef entrance about 1 hour before low tide at 16:00. Nope, this wasn't part of the plan, it was a screw-up. The sea around the entrance to the channel was a totally confused mess with eddies and whirlpools. At that time, I figured out that the tide app on my phone was an hour out for some unknown reason as it's been pretty accurate all along. An hour till low tide and another hour before the flow subsided meaning if we waited, we would be anchoring in the dark amongst coral outcrops.<br />
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So, we headed into through this really narrow channel with thousands of tons of water headed the other way. It was probably the absolute worst time to enter the lagoon and decidedly dodgy! About 50 meters before we entered the channel, Venture was turned through almost 45 degrees one way and then the same again in the other direction due to one of the eddies. It was really tricky holding a straight course through that mess. After some heart-stopping moments, we entered the channel with the engine at top speed making about 1.5 knots over the ground and close to 7 knots through the water!<br />
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Inside the channel, the water stabilised into a lamina flow so no more fighting the wheel, just a very slow passage over about 100 metres of maybe 15 metre wide channel and that was when we saw what makes the lagoon waters so special. We could clearly see the coral on either side sloping off down to the sandy bottom about 8 meters below us. The water was like glass, an absolutely amazing sight!<br />
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We were both gob smacked all the way up through the lagoon to the anchorage. You could see the coral outcrops clearly and it was quite easy to find a big patch of sand to put the anchor down. I could watch the anchor settle on the bottom, 7 meters below us and as I paid out the chain, I could see it turn over and start to dig in.<br />
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Through all this, we took not one single photo! We were both stunned but thought that the conditions would be the same the following day so we basically lazed around and planned what we would do the next day.<br />
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Then the weather changed. For the whole of the next day it was blowing at about 10 to 15 knots and cold, the sea was choppy and there was a swell running especially when the reef was covered at high tide. We knew we would only have one full day there as there was some bad weather coming and the lagoon can be a very uncomfortable place in a developed strong wind. We did take the dinghy to the beach and had a nice walk around and across the island but no snorkelling. Bugger.<br />
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We left the next day and headed back to Pancake Creek to wait out the predicted northerly blow before heading north again. The cunning plan was a total bust! If we had not dawdled over, we would have had a much easier passage through the channel and the afternoon to mess about in the glass like conditions but no, too clever by half.<br />
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We spent another couple of nights in the creek before heading off at dawn again (sorry Terry) for Hummocky Island, just on the other side of the tropic of Capricorn. The tropics. We celebrated by having a tipple of (what I thought) was Dubliner (whisky liqueur). Terry took one sip and nearly spat it out. I'd poured McAllister (cheap mixing scotch) instead :-) After hunting through the boat for at least 10 minutes, we finally came up with the bottle of Dubliner which Terry had put in a very safe place and had our "cheers" moment!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crossing into the tropics. Cheers!</td></tr>
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Funnily enough it was just as cold on the northern side of the tropic of Capricorn as the southern side.. Go figure.<br />
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The weather forecast let us down this time. We chose to go on a day with some nice strong South Westerly winds which would put Venture on a beam reach in perfect sailing conditions but by the time we left, the forecast was downgraded to only 5 to 10 knots and that was what we got. The motor was on almost the whole way yet again.<br />
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On the way, we crossed the tropic of Capricorn and entered the tropics.<br />
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Hummocky Island was nice! A big bay on the northern side of the island with good clean sand for the anchor and protection from the expected strong southerly overnight. On the way in, we saw some big sea caves so we dropped the dinghy and motored around to have a look inside.<br />
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With torches in hand, I turned the dinghy round and backed slowly towards the first cave. There was about a 1/2 meter swell running and it was quite disconcerting to see this hill of water disappear into the cave and the surge was quite strong. I was just getting the hang of balancing the motor against the intermittent surge to slowly move backwards into the cave when there was this loud hollow boom somewhere inside the cave. It was really quite eerie. So we chickened out and motored around to the other cave. This one had a wider opening and looked more promising except the roof sloped down to a small opening at the back maybe 10 meters inside the cliff face.<br />
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Not quite the adventure we expected. Terry was wearing a head band torch the whole time but we never got out of the sunlight :-)<br />
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Daryl and Ruth were in the anchorage with us in their boat so we had sundowners on the beach. Daryl and I swapped stories while Terry chased Max (2 and bit) all over the place. Nibbles and wine were consumed until well after sunset. Both Max and Terry slept well that night but I hung around in the cockpit trying to figure out if we were getting closer to the rocks as the tide dropped.<br />
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At one stage, I was using a narrow torch beam, a level app on my phone and the formula "tan Θ = distance_to_rocks / height _above_water" (I'm a tech head, what do you expect!) to figure out the distance. I discovered that it's really tricky to hold a phone on top of the torch as high as possible while simultaneously pointing the torch at the rock and reading the angle on the phone on the back of a moving boat! After 3 attempts I averaged out the results and came up with 30 meters! The plan was to repeat it an hour later but I fell asleep in the cockpit. Math is fun but a laser range finder would be so much better :-)<br />
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The following day we headed off to Rosslyn Bay for some provisioning and another couple of odd jobs. Another motor sail in 5 to 10 knot breeze. We are really putting some hours on our new motor!<br />
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Highlights: Some nice sailing up the coast and crystal clear water at Musgrave<br />
Lowlights: The engine water heater failed. Bugger.<br />
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For those that are interested, here's our current track Northbound since we left Tweed Heads. It should open in Google Earth..<br />
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<br />Davohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17138702505272639572noreply@blogger.com0Lady Musgrave, QLD, Australia-23.907339333677502 152.40277290344238-23.9218558336775 152.38260290344238 -23.892822833677503 152.42294290344239tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852511613497845572.post-85221319723120437692016-08-17T21:55:00.003+09:302016-08-17T21:55:26.087+09:30Gary's to Bundy or rellies and whales to headaches.We lazed around at Gary's anchorage for 3 days in the end waiting for the wind to drop and then headed up to the Kingfisher resort to catch up with some rellies from the old country.<br />
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Ian is my cousin and I hadn't seen him or his family for many years so it was great to catch up in a nice spot on Fraser Island. They are over from Bahrain for a holiday down under and loving every minute of it! Ian, his son Harry and elder daughter Amelia came for a ride in the dinghy out for a short tour of Venture at anchor off the beach while Lisa and little Rosie finished off the pizza back at the resort. We didn't have time for a sail but Harry and Amelia were full of questions and are now keen to go sailing apparently!<br />
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Amelia managed to get her life jacket on without any help but Harry and Ian made a meal of it finally agreeing that inside out was just fine!<br />
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We stayed the night at the resort and headed off up the Fraser coast and into Hervey Bay to laze around some more.<br />
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We spent three of four days moving slowly north along the Fraser Island coast. The whole coastline is an anchorage with great holding and in the south-east winds, very peaceful. And lots of whale sightings!<br />
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Hervey Bay is well known as a great spot to get a good look at the humpback whales as they migrate north up the east coast of Aussie and it didn't disappoint! I'm sure Terry will put a few photos up when she gets around to catching up but here's a couple to be going on with.<br />
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Our last night on at Fraser Island was a pain. First the head (toilet) failed! The electric motor just wouldn't pump or chop which as you can imagine, is a bit of a disaster. Then the expected wind change came through but stronger than I expected and suddenly we were on a lee shore with 15 knots gusting more of westerly. Venture was hobby-horsing all night with the bow burying at least twice. I stayed up in the cockpit because if the anchor dragged, we would be on the beach within minutes while Terry tried to sleep in the V berth.<br />
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Our anchor didn't budge and inch but the catamaran just north of us dragged almost to the beach before they started the motor, upped anchor and headed a few hundred meters offshore to reset it.<br />
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We left at first light for Bundy after a sleepless night in 10 to 15 knots of westerly wind. We were heading just north of west to make Bundy which was a pain in the ass. I sailed for quite a while making about 15 degrees north of our best course hoping for a wind change but it didn't occur so we furled the jib and motor sailed at about 20 degrees to the wind.<br />
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About 15 miles out of Bundy the wind did change however but dropped to below 10 knots. Typical.. I hoisted our "drifter" (asymmetric spinnaker) for a while which kept the engine off but eventually we gave up and motored the rest of the way.<br />
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So we made Bundaberg just before dark and pulled into the Port Marina for some more lazing around.<br />
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The following day was all about getting the head working again. Nasty things heads if you didn't know it. Emptying the bowl, sponging it out to reduce the leakage onto the floor and then taking the motor and macerator off.<br />
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Luckily, the marina has a pretty good chandlery and I managed to source a new electric motor and the seals I needed and by the end of the day, we were over our headache and had a working toilet again! Yeh... The cost? Well the whole toilet (bowl, seat, motor, macerator and fittings) cost us $240 originally, the parts we needed to fix it (motor and seals) came to nearly $220. Go figure!<br />
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Highlights? Definitely the rellies and whales! Lowlights? A scary lee shore and the friggin head!<br />
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<br />Davohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17138702505272639572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852511613497845572.post-71346380872398871482016-05-22T23:42:00.003+09:302016-05-23T09:17:59.137+09:30Tweed to Grafton and back or Cap Rails to Hatch Covers, Groundings and Sunsets.The Ivory marina at Tweed Heads is a top spot to hang around and fairly cheap for this area! The pontoons are attached to a pub with cold beer and $10 rump steaks! It has some disadvantages with some noisy nights but it really hasn't bothered us too much. It's also a fairly short bike ride to a couple of shopping centres.<br />
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When Terry got back from Adelaide we got stuck into the cap rails. They are the wooden (teak) bits that go all the way around the perimeter of the boat separating the dry from the wet. The main rule in sailing is to stay on the dry area inside the cap rail as nasty things can happen if you stray onto the wet.<br />
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The cap rails had taken a beating over the years with nicks and scratches allowing sea water to the bare wood in places. This caused the varnish to lift around the damage allowing more water to enter. Then mould got a foothold and it was not possible to do repairs. Yep, we should have looked after it better.<br />
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We stripped it back to bare wood which sounds easy but took much sweat and tears. Some of it came off easily (fingernail underneath and pull) but other bits were very tenacious. A mix of scraping with a tungsten blade and a heat gun we found to be the easiest way to get the stubborn bits off.<br />
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Then sanding with 80 grit, 120 grit and finally 240 grit paper until it was as smooth and flat as we could get it. It was all wiped down then on with 6 coats of Marine Spar gloss varnish (Feast Watson). We stopped at 6 because we wanted to do some sailing :-)<br />
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We also tried an oil finish (Intergrain Ultradeck) on the teak handrails which worked really well and also left a glossy finish. Three coats were enough and the beauty of this is that it is not a varnish so we should never have to go back to bare wood again!<br />
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So we went sailing... And here's a link to the track we took. It should open in Google Earth. <a href="http://drawnwild.com.au/venture/track_data/Clarence_River.kml" target="_blank">Ballina to Grafton and back to Tweed Heads</a><br />
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When we initially came north, we wanted to stop in at Yamba and cruise up the Clarence river but the bar when we arrived at the river entrance, we hove-to on the leads and watched the swells breaking over the bar. It didn't look promising and when we heard from the local marine rescue that the fishing trawlers were not going out, we chickened out and carried on overnight to the Gold Coast seaway instead. But we always knew we'd be back as the Clarence is supposed to be well worth a visit.<br />
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So we headed out from Tweed Heads south for the Clarence. The first leg took us to Ballina where we stayed for a couple of days. The anchorage is on the opposite side of the Richmond River from the town and was a bit tricky to get into. There was a dredge working and the outflow pipe was right across the entrance but we figured it out in the end and dropped the anchor.<br />
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Ballina is a really nice spot! There's a public jetty right in the centre of town (supposed to be 2 hours only but we eventually found out it doesn't apply to dinghies) and the river front is a nice, peaceful place with some quite interesting sculptures.<br />
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First stop over the bar was the Iluka boat harbour. This is quite shallow but large enough to be able to find a spot pretty easily. We stayed for a couple of days before arranging for a bridge opening at Harwood and moving on up the river.<br />
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The Harwood bridge is a lifting span bridge which means a chunk of road is lifted vertically up to allow shipping through. The road is actually the Pacific Highway which is the major road between Sydney and Brisbane! I actually felt a bit guilty holding up all that traffic while we tootled along under the bridge at 5 knots. Sorry folks. <span style="color: #741b47;">(P.S. Terry here... I didn't feel guilty at all.... THE POWER!!) :D</span><br />
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The first stop upstream from the bridge was Maclean. This is a really interesting town with a fervent Scottish heritage. They provide a public floating dock right next to the main street with room for two 40' boats with water and free electricity where you can stay for a max of 24 hours or longer if there are no other boats waiting to get on.<br />
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A great facility and a credit to the town! They are planning to build another one from what I can gather and good on them!<br />
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We moved on up the river to Brushgrove next. On the way, we passed a few prawn trawlers and every single one of them seemed to have a heron on the arms holding the net! Weird..<br />
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Brushgrove is a small village on a fork in the river and another public dock. No water or power this time so we dropped the anchor instead and spent some time dawdling around before heading off again. There was a quite spectacular sunrise on the second day with the river covered in mist.<br />
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Next stop was Ulmarra. This is a really nice town with a great pub close to the floating dock and some great people. We anchored opposite the town for another couple of nights and noticed this nice looking boat anchored just up from us. It actually belongs to Alan Lucas who wrote the definitive anchorage guide to the NSW and Queensland coasts. The two books we own of his (Cruising the NSW coast and Cruising the Coral coast) have enabled us to get into some really nice spots and helped enormously with local knowledge almost all the way up the coast. Both are really worth having!<br />
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You don't see this every day either!<br />
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From here we carried on all the way to Grafton which is as far as we could go due to the fixed span bridge there. We anchored initially close to the bridge and took the dinghy under the bridge (about a mile or so) to a public dock next to a pub (of course!) by the rowing club. Grafton is a big town and it even had a Bunnings. We needed that because we noticed our anchor light at the top of the mast had failed and the lantern we use on the back of the boat at night had basically rusted away. Bunnings had a good quality waterproof "indestructible" lantern which we've been using since. And we actually remembered to keep the receipt because it has a 3-year warranty :-)<br />
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I climbed the mast and to check out the light but no amount of cursing or percussive maintenance helped. I've never seen this type of light before and for once, we didn't carry a spare (Jack?). We'll make do till we get back to Tweed Heads and figure out what to replace it with.<br />
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We spent about a week in Grafton all told with a few trips into town and some bike rides. We also posted off our Nikon camera for repair from there. It's the second time it's been in for repair and we are not happy about it. Some of the photos were showing coloured artefacts at the top and bottom. We noticed it clearly in Brushgrove after looking at the misty morning photos although Sarah had noticed it while we were still in Adelaide over Christmas. Anyway, I hope this is the last time we have to get it fixed!<br />
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There's a power line just downstream of Grafton which was a bit scary.. Having worked close to power lines before, I did not want our mast anywhere near them! We have a masthead to waterline height of 15 meters which I physically measured back in Botany Bay. The charts showed the power line clearance at 19 meters but as we got close to it, the sign said 17.. I know you need to keep at least 2m away from 128kv lines so I was panicking a bit till I read the sign properly. It said "Max vessel height" so we still had at least 4m clearance.<br />
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It got pretty foggy on the anchorage the last night we were there!<br />
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We pulled up the anchor and headed back down river stopping at the same places as before but using the pontoons and sampling the pubs (when they were open) this time.<br />
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Back in Maclean, we took up the offer from one of the locals to have a walk through a remnant of temperate rain forest on his property. He was a Pom and had bought the block of land a long time ago building a road up to the top of the hill and a house there. He's actually selling the block at the moment as they need to move to a more manageable house but it's way more than we could look at. It's an absolutely magnificent property though! Some red cedar trees for which the Clarence valley was once famous, large gum trees with a closed canopy above and lots of vines and ferns. There's a couple of waterfalls and two spring fed creeks a dam and lots of birds and a great view from the house. Awesome.<br />
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From Maclean, we booked another bridge opening (thanks again folks) and motored down to Yamba this time (instead of Iluka). There's a training wall on the Yamba side of the river with two openings and they both look similar on the charts. I decided that we would go through the first one we came to as the second meant doubling back. That turned out to be a pretty stupid mistake!<br />
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As we approached it, we both started to get a bit nervous. It was very narrow.. The main chart showed the depth through there at 2m, the navionics app on our tablet showed it at 1.5m and Lucas had it at 1.1m. The tide was around 0.8m so worst case I figured the actual depth at the time would be 1.9m. We draw 1.6 or so meaning we would have at least a foot below the keel. Pretty tight but shallow water is nothing new to us so we slowed down and went through at about 1 knot. We were nearly through with the depth sounder showing 2m when we both felt a thud. The rock wall was obviously not fully removed in the gap and we had touched it!<br />
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Not a nice feeling I can tell you as we both listened for the bilge pump starting up. We have a full keel with a very solid base so I was not overly worried but it did raise my heart rate up somewhat. We were kept busy then as we felt our way through the very shallow channel into the Yamba marina where we had booked a night for a good shower. I told the chap at the marina our story and he said "We really need to put a sign on that gap as it's caught a few people out". At least I'm not the only idiot sailing around :-). So I now have yet another scary "whoops" moment to add to the list of things my brain wants me to relive as I'm trying to sleep!<br />
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We motored over to Iluka the next day to get a quicker start out through the bar heading back to Tweed Heads. The other gap was much bigger!<br />
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We left Iluka through the bar at dawn the following day (sorry Terry) and headed back to Ballina. Not much wind but it was in the right spot early on to get the asymmetric (reacher) out and we made good time under sail for about 3 hours. Then the wind turned to much to the south and died so we motor sailed the rest of the day.<br />
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We had been into Ballina before and it was very calm when we arrived. We turned into the anchorage and headed around to where we anchored last time but went a tad too wide and ran up into a steep mud bank. Grounded again (a regular occurrence..) with about a 10 degree list to starboard. The tide was rising so it wasn't a big issue but the wind was pushing us further into the shallows so I dropped the dinghy, grabbed the kedge anchor and took it off to windward as far as I could. Terry got right onto the winch and like a real grinder, winched us off. We sheepishly took off again and anchored for the night.<br />
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We left Ballina at dawn (sorry Terry) and motor sailed back down to Tweed heads and anchored on the river just north of the golf course. It's a nice spot but very shallow on the way in. I think we touched the ground again at one point. Just a hint of hesitation with the shallow alarm going off and the sounder reading near enough zero. Ho hum..<br />
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One of the jobs on my list is the cabin hatch covers. They are all looking a bit sad so I removed the mid hatch cover the day and sanded it back to bare wood on the outside and cleaned it up on the inside. I've now got three coats of varnish on it and I'll put another two coats on tomorrow. Fixing boats in exotic places. The very definition of cruising in a yacht!<br />
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So, we're back at Tweed and we have "done the Clarence"! It wasn't really what we expected in the end. It was a really nice bit of slow travel with good facilities and we met some very interesting people. But the river passed through farming country when I think we expected national parks. Maybe we were spoiled by Broken Bay which we would go back to again and again.<br />
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We go back into the Ivory marina in a couple of days before we fly back to Adelaide and head over to the UK.<br />
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Some more sunsets and sunrises on the Tweed River for your enjoyment :-)<br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;">(Terry here again... HE'S up to date. I'm absolutely, sadly lacking in the old update department. I have this major problem with procrastination, something i really must deal with one of these days. :) ) </span>Davohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17138702505272639572noreply@blogger.com0Grafton NSW 2460, Australia-29.696850929269019 152.94462203979492-29.710644929269019 152.92445203979491 -29.683056929269018 152.96479203979493tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852511613497845572.post-89086442640031752482016-03-02T01:21:00.001+10:302016-03-02T23:09:59.679+10:30Back in Tweed after Christmas<div dir="ltr">
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Shaggers was awesome but I'll let Terry give you the run down when she gets around to her next update.</div>
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The exhaust riser has been fixed! I got the riser welded temporarily in Mackay and we continued to head south looking to leave the boat in Tweed Heads while we headed back to Adelaide for Christmas.</div>
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I had a heart stopping moment on the way south from Wide Bay down to double island point! The most scary thing that's ever happened to me I think.</div>
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As we left Wide Bay, I caught the end of some chatter on the VHF about something called "Shark Rock" but I didn't really think much of it at the time. I'd set a waypoint off double island point and we were tracking to it. Tracking works well on our nav unit (Raymarine) as it puts a dotted line on the chart showing the forward track (route). My normal routine is to set the waypoint and start the go-to and then zoom in on the route and follow it on the chart all the way to the waypoint to make sure there was nothing in the way. This time, I was not so careful. I did have a look along the track on the plot but didn't zoom right in. </div>
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So, I'm queueing music on the media centre and looking up every now from behind the wheel but not moving around much. Terry had crashed after the early start through the Wide Bay bar and it was a gorgeous morning with only a small swell and not quite enough wind to turn the engine off. </div>
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Suddenly, I looked up and noticed a small patch of white water about 200 meters ahead and a couple of degrees off our port bow. I took it out of auto and made a course change to starboard while I worked out what the hell it was. It turned out to be Shark Rock (also known as Wolf Rock I think)! </div>
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It was awash with only about a meter of black jagged rock showing. The depth sounder was showing 30 meters of water under the keel and the coast was about 3 miles off the starboard beam! I passed it very slowly about 50 meters away and it looked very sharp and extremely hard. The depth never changed and remained about 30 meters the whole time! </div>
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One thing I do know about sailing is to stay away from the hard bits but to find this nasty, tooth of really hard stuff just poking right up out of the sea bed in the middle of a nice clear patch of ocean freaked me right out. It's the stuff of nightmares believe me and I shudder every time I think about it which is still (4 months later) a couple of times a week!</div>
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When I looked on the plot to find out what it was, there's this little tiny cross with a label (awash) that only shows when you zoom in!<br />
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Unfortunately, I didn't get a photo of it as I had to go below to change my pants.<br />
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<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zOn_XqCNWgQ4.k15MfzhqcB-U&usp=sharing" target="_blank">It's here. Don't hit it.</a></div>
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Two lessons I got from this. The first is to zoom right in along your projected track and look carefully for little tiny crosses. The other is more basic. When you are on watch, you have to move around. Sitting in one spot with the mast right in front of you is a really bad idea. I know both of these things and I'm normally very careful, but the nice day, pleasant sail and good music just conspired to nearly cause a disaster. Wolf rock, I've since found out, is a great place to dive if you want to see grey nurse sharks!</div>
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Tweed is really nice! We've got some friends here (Hi Dennis and Vaila!) who were happy to look after the boat for us and the marina is great and a good price so it's just about perfect. Shops are only a short bike ride away and the pub at the marina sells local ale!</div>
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Back to the exhaust.. I sent the old one (with the temporary weld) back to WM Marine and asked them to use it as a template for a complete new part using stainless pipe with the correct wall thickness.</div>
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They miss-understood my email though and built a brand new one but also fixed the old one so I now have two identical risers and it cost about 3/4 of a boat unit.. The old one was apparently fixed with me paying just for the parts (about 10" of 1 1/2" stainless pipe) and them absorbing the labour so I couldn't argue about the price really. So bottom line is I've got a complete spare riser to stow somewhere.</div>
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Anyway we ended up leaving the boat at Tweed Heads and headed back to Adelaide for Christmas. We were there for nearly 3 months in the end. I worked for two of them (kitty building) which was very handy. Terry also arranged for some tests to be done to see if she could donate her kidney to her sister Barbara (Hi Barb!).</div>
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I got back to the boat at the end of February but Terry has had to hang back for the last of the tests.Time to catch up with some work on the boat. There's a list
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The big job is the cap
rails which are peeling so that all has to be scraped off back to bare
wood and then re-varnished. I was tempted to just oil the wood to save future work but we
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notch. But the weather is against me, too much humidity and some showers so I started on the interior instead.<br />
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The floor was getting quite dull and scratched so I'm working on that right now. I'm also polishing some of the brass while the varnish dries :-)<br />
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I'm using Cabots CFP Floor in a satin finish. It's apparently a really hard wearing polyurethane and we chose satin because it hides minor scratches better than gloss. The current finish is either a satin or semi gloss. We do have high gloss finishes on the top surfaces of the tables and cabinets and they still look good so we'll probably leave them for next time.<br />
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Choosing the right product is not an easy job. Everyone has a different story when you do the research and the different types are rather mind boggling. It's more of an art than a science that's for sure. Anyway, Cabots have a good rep and there were not many options at Bunnings :-)<br />
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I've worked out that I've done about 48km on the treadly since I've been back at the boat. Finding gaps in the rain is the hard part, the cycling is actually quite pleasant apart from the up bits. The down bits are a breeze though. Some enterprising fella will one day invent a way to cycle that's all downhill and make a fortune!<br />
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Yesterday I was doing some routine maintenance lying down on top of the motor to reach a through-hull sea water intake valve and lightly nudged the riser for the exhaust and the bloody thing moved! It's really NOT supposed to move. It's supposed to be completely rigid welded to a 10mm thick stainless steel flange attached with 4 good sized bolts to the back of the exhaust manifold. I should have been able to swing on it.. <br />
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Those who follow this might remember the problems we had with <a href="http://adventures-on-venture.blogspot.com.au/search?q=exhaust" target="_blank">the exhaust on the old Westerbeke engine </a>. I personally had that beast welded three times and now our brand spanking new motor has a similar problem. Slightly annoying. <br />
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This is actually a serious issue of course because it allows engine exhaust gasses into the boat.. The break had a lot of soot all around it except for a shiny spot about 2mm long which must have been the only bit attached when I nudged it. Apparently the soot builds very quickly so it may not have been leaking for long but still a bit scary..<br />
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So, I pulled the bloody thing off incidentally getting really fine fibreglass splinters all over me from the lagging (what was wrong with asbestos??) which itched like f**k until I could get into the shower. Then called three welders from a google search all of which went to voice mail. <br />
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Funnily enough, I met Matt the other day.. He is a welder from Brisbane on his boat (a UFO 34) also waiting for Northerlies to get home. I stopped by to ask his advice and he said that although the riser is quite short, it still needed a brace to help prevent failures around the welds due to vibration. Good advice I think.<br />
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After the shower, I asked at the marina office if they knew a reliable welder and got the number for Fleet Industries in Yeppoon who were happy to do the job so I grabbed the courtesy car (thanks Keppel Bay Marina!) and took it down to them. They were really helpful and suggested a brace from the flange to the right hand bend to try to prevent a re-occurance. I hope to pick it up this morning and re-fit it (more itchy and scratchy from the lagging :-( ) so we can still leave on Wednesday for Bundaberg.<br />
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I also had a chat with John Wichard (the engine supplier) and he said he would make me up a new riser using this one as a model but using 3mm pipe instead so I might get him to do that anyway while we are in Adelaide for Christmas and keep this one as a spare.<br />
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The mechanic who fabricated the part is going to help pay for the work.. He would fix it for nothing if I returned it to him back in Pittwater but that would mean another weeks delay.<br />
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None of the original three welders I rang have got back to me yet BTW..<br />
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Still fixing boats in exotic locations :-)<br />
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From Roslyn Bay (Keppel Bay Marina) we <a href="http://drawnwild.com/venture/track_data/Keppels-to-Airlie_Beach.kml" target="_blank">headed North</a> into the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitsunday_Islands" target="_blank">Whitsunday Islands</a> with Dallas and Erica on their 40' Benetau "Momentum" Leaving the marina at dawn (sorry Terry) got quite interesting when the gear lever on the pedestal decided to fail. Luckily we had backed out of the pen and I'd moved it into forward gear before the lever came off in my hand. It's attached to a stainless steel shaft that disappears into the pedestal. The shaft has a threaded hole through it and the lever is held onto the shaft by a screw.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gear Lever on the Edson Pedestal. I've replaced the original pan-head screws with hex heads</td></tr>
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I've had some trouble with this before with both the gear lever and the throttle which is the same design but on the other side of the pedestal. Even though we have a high end, US designed and built, "Edson" pedestal, the design is pretty poor IMHO.<br />
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There is no keyway, flat or splines on the shaft and lever which means that a screw through the top of the lever into the shaft has to cope with the shear forces when you try to rotate the shaft using the lever (if that makes sense). So what happens is that the screw comes slightly loose and the lever starts to rotate slightly on the shaft, work hardening (weakening) the screw until it shears and you're totally screwed (scuse the pun).<br />
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I've replaced the original pan head screws on both sides with hex heads for now so I can get them a bit tighter but it's only a temporary fix really as they still come loose within days. Splines on the rod and lever would have been a much safer and obviously better way to do this because when the screw shears, you lose control of the gearbox (or throttle) with potentially serious consequences.<br />
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I put the lever aside, grabbed a set of vice grips from my tool bag and clamped them down on the shaft as a temporary fix and refitted the lever with a new screw later. Getting the sheared piece of screw out of the shaft is tricky mind you!<br />
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We headed off under engine but the wind came up and we managed to turn the engine off a couple of hours later and had a broad reach North in South West winds around 10 to 15 knots right up to our first stop which was Pearl (my mind says Pearl but my fingers keep typing Perl for some reason) Bay.<br />
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We only stayed for one night unfortunately as it was a lovely bay with big wide sandy beaches and well protected from the South West winds we were having. We did manage to try out our new camera (Nikon Coolpix P900) there for the first time though. The zoom lens with image stabilization on this camera is pretty amazing!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First image is of the shore with a white dingy left of centre (14mm focal length)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is zoomed right in on the dinghy (350mm focal length)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The rear of the dinghy cropped from the above photo</td></tr>
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Admittedly, the first image is wide angle (14mm focal length) but the clarity of the second image at 350mm focal length hand-held from an unstable platform (Venture) is pretty astounding in my view.<br />
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Unfortunately, the camera failed a few days later as I'm sure Terry will tell you all about and we are currently waiting for it to be returned to us under warranty.<br />
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From Pearl Bay we headed up to a lovely anchorage on the North West side of Hexham Island. We spent 3 nights there in the end and it was just lovely. The anchorage was quite calm and the beach fantastic. I got totally involved with a nesting pair of Kestrels there taking hundreds of photos which Terry is still sorting through to add to her blog entry.<br />
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We left Hexham on the 9th August and headed up to the Percy Island group. The Percys have a real reputation in cruising circles and it was a "must visit" stop on our way North. We anchored for a few hours on the North coast of South Percy for a while to let the swell die down a bit before we headed in to the main anchorage on Middle Percy which is not very well protected.<br />
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We spent a relatively quite night at Middle Percy along with about 12 other boats and left the next day. Just before we left though, we had our most amazing whale encounter so far in this trip as a couple of Humpbacks were playing outside the bay for 10 minutes of so breaching and slapping their tails. They were a long way off but not too far for the Nikon. Watch this space for the update from Terry.<br />
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We moved on quickly to avoid some nasty weather heading our way. There were some options for hiding from it in anchorages but we decided to head to Digby and Mackay instead. We motor sailed most of the way and got in to Digby quite late in the day, stayed overnight and left early the next day for Mackay Marina.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Sunset at Digby Island taken from Momentum during sundowners</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sunrise at Mackay Marina</td></tr>
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We enjoyed our time in Mackay but headed North again when the weather cleared again with Dallas and Erica on Momentum. Well we headed off together but they had to turn back before we left the marina due to an unfortunate encounter with the rock wall.<br />
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Dallas was steering and trying to investigate a problem with the auto-pilot and lost situational awareness for a few seconds while the boat turned slowly (he was only doing about 2 knots at the time) towards the rock wall.<br />
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It happens to us all. My latest similar story (and I've got a few buried forever in my head) occurred only two days ago when we were heading through the Gloucester passage. I very nearly went the wrong side of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_mark" target="_blank">cardinal mark </a>(very, very bad idea) in the tight channel when I was distracted for a few seconds by an eagles nest on a channel marker. <br />
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To get back to the story, I was about 50 meters behind them and shouting at him to take care but he didn't hear me above the engine noise and hit the rock wall head on. Luckily, the damage was confined to a dent in the bow (boats are very strong there) just under the waterline but it needed repair so they headed back into the marina to arrange a haul out. <br />
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It just goes to show that even moving at our slow speeds, you really need to concentrate or things can go wrong really quickly.<br />
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From Mackay, we headed to Brampton Island which is really the first of the Whitsunday Islands. Fantastic sailing weather heading North in 10 to 15 knot SE winds and we had the engine off most of the day. It was a bit rolly due to the left over swell from recent bad weather but on the whole, gorgeous :-)<br />
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Brampton is a beautiful spot with an abandoned and run down resort. Again, I'm sure Terry will fill you in later but it was quite eerie to walk around. Unfortunately, the Nikon failed during one of our walks on the island refusing to turn on so we we needed to get somewhere with a post office to post it off for repair under warranty. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Venture in the anchorage at Brampton Island</td></tr>
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We stayed there a couple of days and left in the afternoon on the 15th August for Goldsmith Island. It was a very lumpy ride through to Goldsmith as there we were motor sailing NW in stuff-all knots of SE winds. Not very pleasant. We went south of Ingot Island while Momentum (who had joined us in Brampton the day before) went North of Goldsmith and we both arrived at the anchorage at the same time.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sunset at Goldsmith Island</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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Goldsmith anchorage was bit rolly as we were anchored quite a way out from the beach. Anchoring in the Whitsundays is quite tricky but I think I'll leave the details for another post.<br />
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From Goldsmith we had a pleasant sail up to Lindeman Island where we anchored for another couple of nights pleasant nights. The anchorage here (Plantation Bay) was special for the night time displays put on by the garfish! Whole schools of fish were jumping out of the water all around us for hours. I suspect there were predators about but it seemed like they were just happy to see us there :-).<br />
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From Goldsmith we headed up to Airlie Beach which known as the gateway to the Whitsundays. It was an awesome sail all the way with the wind behind us but just strong enough to keep us from rolling and pushing us along at 6 knots most of the day. We saw some whales about 1/2 mile away and Terry was pretty sure one of them had a white back but it was tricky to be sure due to the white caps in the 15 knot breeze. It would be pretty awesome to see <a href="https://www.google.com.au/search?q=migaloo&safe=off&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CC8QsARqFQoTCMrLsuOFyMcCFeTGpgod2WwG-Q" target="_blank">Migaloo</a>!<br />
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We anchored off the beach in a mooring field close to the Whitsunday Yacht Club and paid the club for the use of their dinghy dock and facilities. We took a taxi into Cannonvale to post of the camera and re-stock for the Shaggers rendezvous.<br />
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From Airlie, we <a href="http://drawnwild.com/venture/track_data/Whitsundays-Pre-Shaggers.kml" target="_blank">headed out again</a> aiming to be at Cape Gloucester for the Shaggers rendezvous on the 25th. We had a really nice sail over to the Stonehaven anchorage on Hook Island. The anchorage has some public mooring buoys but the were all taken so we had to anchor in 13 meters of water. I'm not keen on anchoring in deep water but we had no choice this time. The first time round, we couldn't get the anchor to set (I could hear it dragging over a rock shelf believe it or not) but it did set ok a bit further around the bay. I put 75 meters of chain out and set the anchor alarm. In the end, we had a quiet night and the anchor was fine. The following morning we picked up a mooring and stayed another night. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Misty morning in Stonehaven anchorage, Hook Island</td></tr>
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The weather was changing again with Easterlies coming along and
Gloucester Bay is almost directly West from Hook Island so we decided to
head over to Double Bay East on the mainland in the SE winds and then head
North to Gloucester Bay in the Easterlies to come.<br />
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Bay was another nice anchorage. It's quite shallow but with good
holding and provides good shelter from the SE and East winds. It's
supposed to be good fishing and we did have some luck but we couldn't
identify the fish (very small) that we were catching so we let them all
go.<br />
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We stayed two nights in Double Bay and then headed North up the coastline through the Gloucester Passage to the resort. The expected Easterlies didn't really arrive and the seas were mirror smooth so we had to motor all the way. Gloucester passage was a bit tricky as there was a 2 or 3 knot current pushing us through. The channel makes a hard left hand turn at the narrow and shallow spot to round a South cardinal mark so you turn left, but the current still pushes you straight on.. So we arrived at Shaggers :-)<br />
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We picked up our mooring on the Tuesday and I then spent all of Wednesday trying to fix one of the cabin lights. Which brings me to the odd title of this post..<br />
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Cruising is often defined as "Fixing boats in exotic locations" and it really is true! The list of things needing to be fixed never seems to get any shorter and so we do tend to spend a lot of time at anchor in glorious surroundings getting something or other working again.<br />
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The problem with the cabin light was an odd one. The light began to flicker a few days ago and then failed completely. Measuring the voltage at the light showed 10 volts which was a bit odd but as soon as you put any load on it, (like an led globe) it dropped to 4 volts which is probably less than the working voltage of the led. Further testing with a fly lead showed that it was the positive wire that had the fault (not the negative wire).<br />
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The light is fed from a circuit breaker but all the lights on the port side are fed from the same breaker. They are bundled together (9 wires) and crimped into one fitting screwed to the breaker making it impossible to identify which wire goes to which light fitting without pulling it all apart. In any case, the wires lead from the breaker panel down into the bilge and under the fridge so it's impossible to trace the cable to replace it as well.<br />
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At the light end, there was only about 5mm of movement in the wire which disappears into a 8 inch teak disk glued to the roof above the head lining making it essentially impossible to tug on the wire to watch which one moves at the other end without pulling off the head lining which was never going to happen!<br />
So, I ended up threading a new wire from the light fitting on the starboard side inside the head lining over to the broken one on the port side and terminating the original positive lead.<br />
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The strange thing is I'm enjoying every minute of this! Weird eh..Davohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17138702505272639572noreply@blogger.com5Rosslyn QLD 4703, Australia-23.161234070191679 150.78804016113281-23.16488357019168 150.78299766113281 -23.157584570191677 150.79308266113281tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852511613497845572.post-87886170439632672172015-08-04T21:08:00.000+09:302015-08-28T06:55:16.937+09:30Keppel groupWe spent a couple of nice nights at Roslyn Bay. The marina is well kept and the people very friendly. We did some washing, filled the water tanks and headed off to Great Keppel Island for a looksee.<br />
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The wind was from the South East so we went to the Northern side of the
Island where a couple of anchorages have protection from Southerlies.
There were a lot of boats in the preferred anchorage (Second Bay) so we
dropped our anchor in Leekes beach initially and then moved into Second Bay the next day.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Venture at anchor off Second Beach GKI</td></tr>
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We ended up staying for 3 uneventful nights just off this beautiful, pristine white sandy
beach with crystal clear water all around. This really was like paradise.<br />
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We ducked back over to Roslyn Bay when the
weather turned foul and hung there for a couple of nights waiting for an
parcel to arrive from Adelaide which I'm sure Terry will tell you all
about.<br />
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In the end, the parcel didn't arrive (long story) and we
hopped back over to Great Keppel Island again for 3 more nights this time in the
Fishermans Bay anchorage on the West side of the island before heading
back to Roslyn Bay on the Tuesday to pick up the parcel and head further north.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Foggy morning at anchor in Fishermans Bay, GKI.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<br />Davohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17138702505272639572noreply@blogger.com0The Keppels QLD 4700, Australia-23.162378302035979 150.95428347587585-23.16602780203598 150.94924097587585 -23.158728802035977 150.95932597587586tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852511613497845572.post-13476523186033537492015-07-23T10:03:00.000+09:302016-07-11T11:52:30.128+09:30No emus but plenty of cheek.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">Straw Backed Ibis on the lawns at Rosslyn/Keppel Bay Marina.</span></b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Rosslyn and Emu Bays</b></span></div>
After a bit of a rough passage north, our next stop off was at the lovely port of Rosslyn, and the lovely Keppel Bay marina therein. The marina is in a sheltered 'bay' overlooked by the bluff (which looks very much like the Bluff at Encounter Bay in SA).<br />
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With a great coffee shop/restaurant, small chandlery, friendly people in the boats, even friendlier and helpful people working there, and a bus right at the front door, we had no problem staying a few days. Fully self-contained bathrooms and a couple of laundry rooms made it nicer still although, for the first couple of days we used the public showers (not as nice) before realising there was a whole other block of roomy and very private facilities specially for marina users. D'oh!! There is also an excellent fisherman's market close to the marina. Well worth checking out.<br />
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I needed to see a doctor while I was there and the marina staff not only recommended one for me, they also made the appointment, which was awesome. What wasn't so awesome was the bike ride to get there, much of which was up some quite steep, long hills, although that had the advantage of being downhill on the way back. I keep telling myself that riding the bike is a great way to keep fit, and it will be if it doesn't kill me first.<br />
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</b>The bus service that passes through Keppel Bay is also fantastic, stopping right outside the marina entrance. From there, we caught the bus that took us along the esplanade that looked out to the Keppel Islands and on to Emu Bay, a gorgeous, very pretty little town with an interesting boardwalk and war memorials and a lovely surprise, a sculpture called the 'Singing Ship'. Unfortunately for us, the ship was not singing on that particular day due to lack of wind, but it was still interesting to look at. I think a visit to YouTube might be in order so that I can check out the tune.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">The Singing Ship: Emu Bay</span></b></span></td></tr>
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Emu Bay also has a really great bakery where everything is straight-out-of-the-oven fresh. Sadly, though, the whole area around Rosslyn and Emu bays are not quite far enough south to escape cyclones and signs of the latest one was evident in a few places.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">Cyclone damage in Emu Bay. We saw a lot of damage around Rosslyn as well.</span></b></span></td></tr>
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We also caught the bus the other way, to Rosslyn Bay where we needed to do a bit of a shop. Again, we found Rosslyn to be a really nice place but one that we didn't explore as much as we'd have liked due to the knee goblins. Oh well. :)<br />
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While we were still in the marina I was lucky enough to be invited to coffee with a great bunch of local women and spent a good couple of hours chatting while Dave got a break from me.<br />
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P.S. The marina café has some amazing cakes, but be on guard and protect your pastries at all times from the cheeky blue faced honey-eaters that clean up all of the scraps, much like little, brightly coloured seagulls and who seem to enjoy eating a whole lot more than just honey.<br />
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<br />Terry Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06639913168314485282noreply@blogger.com0Rosslyn Bay, Rosslyn QLD 4703, Australia-23.1615623 150.78753699999993-23.1688618 150.77745199999993 -23.1542628 150.79762199999993tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852511613497845572.post-5000126318557135772015-07-14T18:48:00.000+09:302015-07-31T08:16:22.377+09:30Pancakes and Yellow PatchesWe left Bundaberg on Monday 13 July heading North again.<br />
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We were heading for Pancake Creek which everyone says is the best stop heading north from Bundy and they were not wrong!<br />
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As we expected the weather was quite strong so I raised the main with a single reef in it and with the yankee out as well, we turned off the engine and relaxed. Terry may have relaxed too much as she ended up in the V-berth having a kip while I tweaked sails trying to go as fast as possible, as you do..<br />
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The wind picked up quite a bit over the next few hours and I would have liked to put another reef in the main as we were a bit over-powered and heeling quite a bit at times. But we have a rule that you absolutely do not leave the cockpit when on watch by yourself and we have to reef at the mast so I ended up spilling some wind from the main to take the pressure off and we powered on hitting nearly 8 knots at times.<br />
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The wind swung around to the North as we got closer to Pancake Creek and we had to drop the sails and motor into the creek where we dropped anchor at about 16:30 after quite a tiring day. Pancake creek was very sheltered and we spent 4 days there in the end exploring and hiding from the strong weather that came through.<br />
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Our original plan was to take the inside route past Gladstone up through a place called <a href="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/111608204.jpg" target="_blank">The Narrows</a> between Curtis Island and the mainland. Tides up this way are quite big (3 or 4 meters) and they need to be to get through here as the shallowest spot known as the cattle crossing is -2m. Yep, that's dry ground, 2 meters above sea level at spring low tides meaning we would need a 4 meter tide to get through with 300mm to spare under the keel :-) That's very skinny water!<br />
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This appealed to the adventurer in me as you have to get there just before high tide and move quickly through before you run out of water as the tide goes out. The low spot is about 5 miles long so it's about an hour of motoring.. But in the end, tides big enough for us to get through were all occurring at night and I might be adventurous but I'm not stupid :-) So we elected to go outside Curtis Island instead.<br />
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We left on Friday 17th heading for a place called Yellow Patch. This was suggested to us by a really nice couple we met in Pancake creek from a boat called Bamboozle. They said it was a bit tricky to get into but once you were in, it was a great place to spend some time.<br />
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We anchored overnight at Cape Capricorn which is a big bay at the northern end of Curtis Island providing some shelter from the South Easterly trade winds. It's a bit exposed but we had to wait for the morning high tide to get into Yellow Patch and the wind was quite mild. It was a rather rolly night but we were both tired so it didn't worry us too much. In the morning, we went into Yellow patch starting from a waypoint given to use by Marine Rescue Yeppoon. I won't publish the waypoint as the sand is shifting quite a lot so it's far better to get the latest from Marine Rescue than use an old one.<br />
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We started in at about 3/4 incoming tide high enough to get through but with enough time and a rising tide to get out of trouble again if we grounded. The "low water alarm" went off a few times and our keel got within 100mm of the sandy bottom at the worst spot but once we were over the shallows, it deepened again to about 8 meters at some points and we motored over to a spot where we had enough swinging room to put out 40 meters of anchor chain.<br />
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That sounds like a lot but with a 4 meter tide and a conservative 1 meter of water at low tide, you have to let out enough chain to cope with 5 meters of water at high tide. That's 36 meters when you take into account that our anchor roller is another meter above water level and you need a 6:1 scope to ensure a good set.<br />
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Yellow patch was awesome! We were both really happy that we'd decided to take the risk and come in. This was even after we sat on the ground at low tide at one point :-) The wind had blown us away from the beach and put the boat into the shallows. It was quite calm at the time and I remember us both thinking, this is too calm before we popped up into the cockpit and had a good look around. I got into the dingy and sounded the depths around the boat with a weight and some knotted string. Yep, hard aground and I could see the boat was leaning a bit to confirm it.<br />
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So I put the kedge anchor (a fortress) into the dingy and took it towards the beach on about 100m of old yankee sheet. After dropping it in, we wound the sheet onto the primary winch and took up the slack. This was mainly as an exercise in handling grounding events as there was very little chance we would get blown further into the shallows. About an hour later, we felt the boat start floating again and I wound the kedge anchor in using the winch until it broke free and we took it back on board.<br />
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In the meantime, I'd taken the dingy and sounded out the area towards the beach and found a spot with a good 2.5 meters of water for 50 meters in all directions. I pinpointed the position by noting two sights at right angles and when we pulled up the main anchor, we motored over to this position and anchored again. Some drama always helps to keep you awake in paradise :-)<br />
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Leaving Yellow patch was another adventure this time a bit more freaky.. We had to wait out some bad weather and that meant that the tides we needed to get out were getting later and later in the day and we needed about 6 hours to get to our next stop (Roslyn Bay). Neither of us like arriving somewhere new in the dark so we took the earliest possible exit window.<br />
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The tide was about 2.2 this time which was just enough for us to get out. However, there was a bit of a swell still running after the bad weather and from the anchorage, it looked like an unbroken line of low breakers right across the bay! We headed out anyway for a better look and found there were no breakers in the exit route so we decided to go and headed out very slowly.<br />
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The swell meant that the boat was going up and down a bit as well as forwards and at the shallow spot we found on the way in, we bounced off the sand a few times.. Heart stopping is the only way I can describe it as if we ran hard aground with any sort of swell, we'd be banging around for quite a while waiting for the tide to float us off. We bounced about 4 times in all. Three of them were quite light touches but the 4th was a hard thump that you could feel through your feet. And then as we got into deeper water, the bilge pump started cycling..<br />
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A quick look (read jumping down the hatch in a panic to find a torch) into the bilge showed that the sensor had dislodged and was too far down in the bilge.. There is always some water in the bilge as the pump pushes the water up 4 feet of pipe to get it overboard. The water left in the pipe when the pump stops flows back down into the bilge. I have often thought of adding a check valve at the pump but the risk of it jamming closed preventing the bilge pump from working is a risk I'm not prepared to take.<br />
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Anyway, the sensor was kicking the bilge pump off which pumped till it sucked air then stopped and the water flowing back into the bilge was just enough to reach the lowered sensor so rinse and repeat.. <br />
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I turned the bilge pump off for the time being and moved the sensor back to it's rightful spot the following day this time with an extra screw!<br />
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Anyway, we got out and made it to Roslyn Bay (Kepple Bay Marina) just before dark as planned.<br />
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In all, we were quite pleased with ourselves. We had made the right decisions all along measuring risks calmly and properly always with a Plan B in mind. We had some issues but we coped well and succeeded in spending time in a pretty awesome spot! Go us!Davohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17138702505272639572noreply@blogger.com0Capricorn, QLD, Australia-23.513350900029309 151.21624946594238-23.527910900029308 151.19607946594238 -23.498790900029309 151.23641946594239tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852511613497845572.post-86751026343577379422015-07-13T04:30:00.000+09:302015-10-18T11:09:40.191+10:30Pancake Creek... sans pancakes<br />
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In the last post I think I had mentioned that we were once again headed for yet another early morning departure. Leaving at 5.30am to be exact, which means getting up at around 4.30. Seriously... this is messing with my head! Since when is 4.30am a legitimate time anyway? Not even the birds get up at that time! <br />
<br />I slept part of the way after taking another happy-not-to-purge pill and twelve hours later we arrived at our destination... Pancake Creek (named after the cutter Pancake that anchored there in 1862.) Even coming around the corner in the evening light we could see that it was a lovely spot. With only a few other boats in the large bay, we chose a spot fairly close in to shore and set anchor for the next few days. We knew that the tides were quite large and that the beaches dried out to some distance and so we picked our anchorage carefully.<br />
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The following morning we dropped the dinghy and went ashore to find the path that would lead us to the Pancake Creek lighthouse. We knew that whilst we were to be away, the tide was going way, way out and since the hundred metre dinghy drag isn't our favourite sport, we came prepared with food, water and a picnic blanket on which to snooze and await the incoming tide. <br />
<br />Ducking through a hole in the trees, we found ourselves following a series of 'markers' that led to the main path. These 'markers' consisted of anything orange hanging in trees....ribbons, string, hats, an old drink bottle, small buoys, shoes... whatever could be found that happened to be orange... ingenious (remember kiddies, recycling is important)!<br />
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The first place it led was through the remains of a large stand of trees. The ground beneath them was flat and bleached and completely devoid of growth and, in death, the ghostly white tree trunks stood as silent sentinels to an untold story. Not a sound was heard in this part of the journey, and when we spoke, the words sounded muffled in the air, which was simply weird. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">An Eastern Osprey and nest near the ghostly forest of dead trees.</span></b></span></td></tr>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6VIzYIGeI7taRrCXLSCc9Z8Lx3wj4mxPMS4ujui6MjjXX4o2OmxEYQ95A12iSR8lvGwl653ehfKg0N91SlCM8W9UrswhwYl9QIhLyVsfl5-vYzL_zGMX-N8JHGKDeeBhakLwENLrC3Bg/s1600/BEasternOsprey.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><br />Following the orange detritus, we easily found the narrow, grassy path and set to, occasionally dodging huge dangling spiders and breaking through webs as we went (Dave led the way... yay!) towards the lighthouse. It was a fairly easy walk around the headland, with a nice variety of birds to spot and apart from the spiders, was really pleasant. Along the way we saw signs towards other areas, which we decided to explore on the way back if we weren't too knackered. <span style="color: #134f5c;"><i> </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><i>Sorry about all of the bird photos but I did say we saw a few :)</i></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #660000;">One of those dangling bloody spiders! </span></span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">Little Brown Cuckoo with his lunch. </span></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">Noisy Friar Bird on a large Black Boy stalk.</span></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">Spangled Drongo (seriously, what an <i>awesome</i> name!)</span></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>Silver gull immature.</b></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">Pied Oyster Catchers,</span></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">An absolutely wonderful Beach Stone Curlew.</span></b></span></td></tr>
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<br />At the lighthouse, we found that we weren't able to go up close because there was a tour group (the paying customer always comes first) that had arrived from 1770 (the town, not the era) in a big, pink aquaduck but the caretaker did tell us about a vantage point a bit further along where the views were awesome, so we we snapped a few pictures of the lighthouse and then to take in the sweeping vistas of the gorgeous Jenny Lind Creek (named after the schooner Jenny Lind which ran aground on Feb 2nd 1857). She was right.... it was awesome.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">The stunning view towards 1770.</span></b></span></td></tr>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikUyp016Wa7QEiddjnl9qX-wnmOCNoEheoVhCTpnZBuGm5y2SdVsmmN5qXCjiudTIiv_4Qv9akIMRFodNIpiQzxQj-tNb5mR_VYCZzWDD21W4oink1z6Z2hxMvvLNAd0AM2k4i0sLb5sA/s1600/Coastline.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr1d7IGTKDqwKrl-ZGG73kTyHNZpmdwZy8BxXMUT_EuNNkYmie9iAqVFXFXGuu37psJLoVIsEESXObH8kbx0pcTzRSGignO1iy77E-G_TRri1nwOlPN_m73x2V5vUL8eqPH1FbmgaRknU/s1600/EnviroDuck1770.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><br />After doing the paparazzi thing, we backtracked and popped in to the small cemetery <span style="color: #351c75;">(<i>I LOVE wandering cemeteries and anyone who knows me will know
that I have an absolutely wonderful fascination (some may call it
morbid, I call it an interest in history) with them and whenever I
come across one, I will most likely put in a lot of information and/or
photos.)</i> </span><br />
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Whilst there, the tour group and their very knowledgeable guide arrived, which was great because we got to hear all about the tragic histories of those who were buried there. Surprisingly, very few of the interred had died a natural death.<br />
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<br />One woman (Kate Gibson) it was said, had committed suicide and so, considering it a sinful act, her name was omitted from the family grave. However, it was more likely that she had been murdered by her husband as there was apparently a lot of evidence that, had it happened nowadays, would have convicted him. The story goes that she was living in Bustard Head with her husband, Nils Gibson, and four daughters. In 1877, for some unknown reason, she just left the cottage one morning and walked out into the bush. Next morning, one of her daughters found her. Her throat was slashed from ear to ear. Her husband alleged that she had taken her his cutthroat razor, just walked out of the house and committed suicide. However, the fact Nils <i>always</i> had the razor on him, even when he went out in his boat (where he claimed he was when his wife died, even though there were no witnesses to that), should have aroused suspicion but for some reason Nils apparently hadn't noticed it missing. Kate was found the following day by one of her daughters, lying flat on the blood soaked ground with one arm lying across her chest. The fact that it is almost impossible to slit one's own throat from ear to ear was not taken into account. Nor was the fact that the razor, which had been missing was, days later, found beneath a tree root near the tragic scene. A mystery indeed. One of Kate's daughters was also a drowning victim and another died from epilepsy. Nils himself eventually died from cirrhosis of the liver. On the family headstone, Kate's name is omitted as 'suicide' was seen as being against the church. She is just 'Dear Mother'.<br />
<br />Bustard Head has always been marred by tragedy, with its first victim being a workman who suffered a blow to his head during the lighthouse’s construction and who died the next day. With his passing came a bizarre series of shipwrecks, drownings, an abduction, a murder, Kate Gibson’s 'suicide' and several other unusual deaths. There are a total of nine graves in the cemetery, with a couple of them child sized and unmarked. Very sad but also interesting.<br />
<br />After leaving the cemetery we decided to take the slight detour to Aircraft Beach, a wide, long expanse of flat, solid, golden sand on which, you guessed it, aircraft have been landed. It was yet another stunningly gorgeous, empty beach.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>Aircraft beach... simply gorgeous. </b></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">One of thousands of tiny crabs to be building little piles of sand.</span></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">Petrified fungi</span></b></span></td></tr>
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When we got back to the dinghy the tide was well out and so the blanket
was spread, snacks and water came out and we picnicked and Dave snoozed
and I took photos on the beach until the tide had come in enough so that
we didn't have to traverse the worst of the mud. We again felt so lucky to be able to see somewhere that is not ordinarily seen. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">When stranded, take a nap. </span></b></span></td></tr>
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I regret to say that not a single pancake was cooked that week (how could we have neglected to make pancakes in the most obvious place to eat them??) Methinks that it may happen in the not too distant future now that my taste buds have been piqued, then again, when is it ever the <i>wrong</i> time for pancakes? :)<br />
<br />And now it's time to once again hit the ocean and find ourselves a little swatch of sunshine in Yellow Patch... stay tuned. <br /><br />Terry Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06639913168314485282noreply@blogger.com0Bustard Head, Eurimbula QLD 4677, Australia-24.028263 151.76802399999997-24.144285999999997 151.60666249999997 -23.91224 151.92938549999997tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852511613497845572.post-46355113877131056072015-07-10T13:53:00.000+09:302015-10-02T14:16:12.692+09:30Bundy but no Rum.Though we were in Bundaberg for a couple days, we really didn't do an awful lot there, at least not as much as we'd hoped, but what we did do was fun. The marina is lovely, with good facilities but is fairly out of the way from everything, and so we hired their car for while. We had intended to buy a heap of fresh fruit and veg from the markets but the problem is, when you get there fairly late in the day, there's not a lot left, in fact where food is concerned, there's none, so we had to make a contingency plan to go to the Shalom Market on the Sunday morning. The Market is held at the Shalom Catholic School (is it just me or is there something kind of ironic in that name?) <br />
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In the meantime, we took a diversionary trip to a swamp, which is nowhere near as dire as it sounds although, with all good swamp stories, there were HEAPS of bats! Mwahahahahahahaaaa! Granted, they were fruit bats (or flying foxes for the pedantic) but bats none the less. Awesome!!<br />
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The Baldwin Swamp Environmental Park isn't strictly the true swamp it may have begun its life as as it is surrounded by well maintained paths and large expanses of mown lawn, but it is still a large and beautiful area with some of the waterways thickly covered with matted water plants. Towering gums harboured more bird life and the birdy sounds around us were glorious, but the little buggers making the sounds were elusive and camera shy. Even the light rain we had that afternoon only added to the atmosphere and, for a change, we'd remembered to bring the umbrella.<br />
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After a good couple of hours wandering the swamplands, we made our way back through the sugar cane fields to the marina where, that night, we caught up for sundowners with our friends Peter and Cathy on their boat 'Acropora'. For the uninitiated, sundowners is where you get together on someone's boat, or a beach, or pretty much anywhere and have a drink and nibbles, and usually another couple of drinks as the sun goes down. It has been known for sundowners to end in the wee small hours of the following morning. :)<br />
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Unfortunately the one thing we didn't end up doing in Bundaberg, was to visit the distillery where the famous Bundaberg Rum is made. Perhaps next time.<br />
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Tomorrow we get up early (again??!... double ugh!!) to head for Pancake Creek.Davohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17138702505272639572noreply@blogger.com0Burnett Heads QLD 4670, Australia-24.779018577269195 152.38612174987793-24.786227077269196 152.37603674987793 -24.771810077269194 152.39620674987793tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852511613497845572.post-35461609568418856022015-07-08T12:24:00.000+09:302015-09-19T14:23:34.475+09:30Minor flashback!! Fraser Island - Part two - we didn't resort to the Resort<b>Fraser Island - Kingfisher Resort Anchorage </b><br />
We arrived at Fraser Island's Kingfisher Resort at around lunch time after spending a quiet night at South Whitecliffs (a pit-stop from Garry's Anchorage). It was a busy place, with ferries chugging to and from the mainland, and quite a lot of boats anchored in the bay but the anchorage is so big, there was room for many more.<br />
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Kingfisher Resort on Fraser Island is just that.... a resort, filled with holiday makers staying in their hotel rooms, or cabins, or eco accommodation. There are swimming pools and bars, tennis courts, restaurants and shops and lots of things to do as long as you can pay for it... and very little of it interested us. About the only thing I would have liked to have done was segue (or segway if you prefer) riding on the beach but we decided that our money was better spent elsewhere (but hey, if I get back to Fraser, it'll be me, the segue and the beach, baby!!).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Speed signs for those who feel that they need to speed</b></span></span></td></tr>
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We did take a wander along to the shop for a loaf of bread and a map of the island, and I did buy myself a new top (like I TOTALLY needed it!! No... really... I did!) but apart from that, the resort itself (apart from the Sand Bar, where there were showers and awesome pizza) had no appeal to us whatsoever so we looked at walking trails, of which there are many, in all different lengths, directions and difficulty.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">Awesome pizza at the Sand Bar</span></b></span></td></tr>
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After all of that excitement we finally decided on the walk that took us from the Sand Bar up to a lookout and then a long ramble around the back of the resort area (which was fully fenced off to keep the dingoes out). At one stage we did leave the enclosed area (where there are much longer walks) but one look at the steepness of path, the angle of the dangles and the knee jolting roughness of the rocks changed my mind so back inside the gate we went.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>View from the lookout at the beginning of Beerillbee track</b></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>The Beerillbee trail.</b></span></span></td></tr>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibfOVuPLQEh6Vkdg4dxTb7EsgKDdNwlrwHi8XyOJUzTC0bg8K7r-q78w-5TJ-oLzU3F3FLgGCUSouvrKpkaafqSxqDX9jpFgDvIzRd4XyO2FW1Vi8iT8n_GZodcVbi1euZpnCgmeZGCQA/s1600/FI2PossumsandFerns.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>The walk we did take was meant to be a longish short walk along the
Beerillbee trail but somehow turned into a longish long walk filled with
twists and turns, ups and downs, a few birds, some awesome views and a
variety of paths from well marked to rocky ruts. In the end we wound up
back at the resort and it was decided that we'd burned off enough
calories to have a drink and an ice cream, so it was Coke and Magnums
all round. Oh yeah! We strolled out of the resort towards the beach
along the road that was flanked along its full length by vehicles filled
with outgoing holiday makers who were waiting around for the ferries to
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>Pied Butcherbird</b></span></span></td></tr>
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after a nap, we also planned our next move. Next stop, after a 6am start
(ugh!), Bundaberg and ever closer to the Whitsundays. :) <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik-CqdgRXRBYnrSUVXsUQP4uRQdsxRUssCvT_LKRP__kp3tksJ7WjwLVFH_tikCTDyj4J1z7o0z2UDMLTsmZt7QYhrn_yCXrzOy8KU5_gjS2dwnOCgDrH0BWmGhS4TNEVW7OjWpA7zD4s/s1600/FI2GreyFantail.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a>Terry Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06639913168314485282noreply@blogger.com0Fraser Island, Queensland, Australia-25.2663148 153.15608529999997-27.1043893 150.57429829999998 -23.4282403 155.73787229999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6852511613497845572.post-3936080562170864582015-07-05T14:00:00.000+09:302015-07-30T15:28:05.803+09:30Fraser Island - Part 1 - Dingo Daze<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">Curlews on a sand bar. </span></b></span></td></tr>
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Fraser Island - Garry's Anchorage. 5th July - 7th July <br /><br />After another calm and pleasant night in Pelican Bay, we made a late start and slowly made our way along the 18 nautical miles to Garry's Anchorage on the west coast of Fraser Island. This meant we were totally getting warmer and hopefully socks and cardigans could soon make way for T-shirts and shorts (yeah... in my dreams right now). Unfortunately my legs are so white I could blind people if the sun inadvertently shone on them. I have determined that it may be time for the fake tan on them just in case. I'd hate to be mistaken for a beacon.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">The 'Garry' of Garry's Anchorage. </span></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>Garry's Anchorage at Fraser Island. </b></span></span></td></tr>
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Garry's anchorage is a peaceful haven and with only a few other boats around, it felt like our own little piece of paradise but rather than just sit about on the boat, and because the day was pretty much perfect, we dropped the dinghy and went ashore where we were greeted on the beach by a bloke who could have easily talked the hind leg off of a camel and still had more chat left for the hump. Even as we left him (luckily an unsuspecting couple of blokes had arrived, the perfect distraction for a hasty getaway) I don't think he took a breath before regaling the newcomers with another tale. Apart from telling us about the track he had gone down (the one we also decided to take) we had no clue what he was talking about. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">The long track, now closed to vehicles, but a lovely walk.</span></b></span></td></tr>
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Once again the warning signs were out for possible crocodile activity so we decided that the trek inland was definitely a sensible move. The track was an old 4 wheel drive track but was closed due to a weakened bridge further along, and so we pushed past the barriers and wandered down the wheel ruts looking out for birds or any other creature that might show itself.<br />
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<br /><br />Fraser Island is renowned for its dingoes but because of the size of the island, we had hopes but no real expectations of actually seeing one. When we had gone about a kilometre or so along the corridor, and with not a sound around us, I jokingly said to Dave "For all we know, there could be an entire pack of dingoes behind us and we'd never know". At that, Dave spun around and bugger me.... there was a dingo not 100 metres behind us! It was awesome! We stopped dead and whipped out the cameras as it trotted slowly towards us, watching us as warily as we watched him. He was a beauty and with no ear tags, he was an unknown quantity. He came another 30 metres closer before he decided that it was time to do a disappearing act, and with that, he veered right and vanished into the bush. It was a most fantastic experience. We're fairly sure that he may have trailed us for some distance from his camouflaged position. We saw nothing but the feeling that we weren't alone was strong for a while. We walked on just past the damaged bridge before the decision was made to go back and try the other way. We didn't see any more dingoes but it didn't matter one little bit.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">An absolutely unexpected sight. What a handsome boy!</span></b></span></td></tr>
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Back in the clearing near the beach, we took advantage of the fact that some sensible person had decided that tables and benches under the trees were a good idea.... yay that person! It was whilst we were sitting and having a bite to eat that I noticed several huge bugs under the table. After my initial "Oh my god, oh my god get it away!!" reaction, I noticed that they weren't moving and so I didn't panic much and had a closer, though very wary look. I panicked even less when I realised that these 'bugs' were nothing but husks, the creepy sheddings of something even larger, which luckily we didn't see. Yep, they could be the stuff of every entomophobe's nightmare! I even got brave and moved the corpse on to the table to take a closer look. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">It was a big bug! I was ever so brave!</span></b></span></td></tr>
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A little more exploration in the opposite direction to the dingo encounter was made. We practised our 'twitching' (bird photography) before we succumbed to the distant beckoning call of boat caffeine. Luckily the talky man had departed the beach to find other ears to bend, so we tootled back to the boat. It had been an interesting day!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">White cheeked honey eater</span></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">Easter yellow robin.</span></b></span></td></tr>
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End of part one.... stay tuned for part two of our Fraser Island exploits :) <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid6XHVlrrYVfPJDX9vLXtjNWgErp9inlZxahy7ReKzHufxmzIN6FJAiodgLxjxPyAb5WQxUG3UU1WWK3wtR4MN14bU2xS7O8C0pFMydCajs1c2z8T8sSPZN_zuVPtnpD3fs2cKDrF7-o8/s1600/GAunsurebird.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>Terry Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06639913168314485282noreply@blogger.com0Garry's Anchorage, Great Sandy National Park, Queensland, Australia-25.6294162 152.97539419999998-25.631205700000002 152.97287269999998 -25.6276267 152.97791569999998