We set off from the GoldCoast at 07:50 as I was keen to arrive in Scarborough (Redcliff) before dark. Motoring into the inland channel, all was well, with the tide in our favour and plenty of depth but this was soon to change! After about an hour we arrived in a spot known to be tight on depth but what I didn’t expect was the depth sounder to go to 0 and for Pilgrim to have a gentle ‘kiss’ of the bottom as we passed. This event was almost repeated a few minute latter with what I estimate to be less than 10cm under us a number of times. Now all of this was taxing, particularly with low sun and shadows but the trip still had its merits and certainly afforded a cross section of Brisbaine's socio-economics spectrum. We saw mansions and shacks and we saw multi million dollar boats a near wrecks. All were represented along the route!
Further along an interesting phenomenon occurred as we followed a big vehicular ferry through a narrow channel. The props of the ferry so churned the bottom that our depth sounder was blinded by the silt and showed zero with screaming alarms even though the charts showed 3 m. Disconcerting and worth remembering!
Arrival at Scarborough was only made interesting by the bottom of the tide and a ‘marina girls’ who didn’t want to tell me much. (It turns out she was just back from a long holiday and didn’t want t be at work today). This however didn’t stop us enjoying our shower and the state of origin at a local boat club before ‘binks’ as my uncle Den use to call it.
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