We departed Tin Can Bay Marina as planned on Friday at 10:45.
On our way out past the Coast Guard in Snapper Creek, we came across a couple
of Sailability vessels out for a sail. One was sponsored by Rotary
and the other by Lions.
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| Sailability Tin Can Bay |
We sailed and motored up the Straits. We were followed by a trimaran who sailed the whole way, gybing up
the Straits as the wind was mainly directly from behind. Robyn had sail envy
when he caught up to us.
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| Tri with Hi Tech sails |
At 16:05 we dropped anchor at South White Cliffs. South White Cliffs is 28 nautical miles from Tin Can Bay and it took us just over 5 hours to get here. It is a
beautiful anchorage with good depth of water outside the main northern channel.
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| South White Cliffs |
Chris installed two
Schottky bypass diodes on
the solar panels to help with shading issues caused by the boom. The starboard
solar panel appears to be seriously underperforming (0.5 amp) but now is not
draining the energy from the port solar panel. The port panel now sometimes gets up to
2.6 amps in bright sunlight with the bypass diodes installed.
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| Solar Panel |
Robyn baked a date loaf from a new recipe. Saturday night
was pizza night with a Rogan Josh and broccoli pizza made by Chris from first
principles ie the base was made from scratch with flour and yeast etc. It
is great to have the time to do simple stuff.
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| Rogan Josh Pizza |
On Sunday, we put the dinghy in the water and scrapped the barnacles
off the hulls. Towards dusk, three houseboats arrived. We enjoyed dinner on the
back deck.
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| Exclusive dining on the back deck |
Are you sick of the sunset photos yet?
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| Sunset at South White Cliffs |
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| Sunset at South White Cliffs |
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| Sunset at South White Cliffs |
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| More sunset at South White Cliffs |
Tomorrow, we move on the morning tide to Arch Cliffs. As we
move up to the top end of Fraser Island we may possibly lose phone reception
and may not have good reception until we get close to Gladstone. We intend to
stay in Platypus Bay, off the northern part of Fraser, for about a week and then,
if the weather is OK, move out to the reef at Lady Musgrave Island. From there
we plan to go to Pancake Creek north of 1770. In about 3 weeks time we intend
to be in Gladstone to reprovision.
Happy birthday Bruce.
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