09th - 11th Jul 2010
Spending the first day sorting out the steering, we planned to stay the weekend to sit out some wind and rain but as forecasts improved we decided on a Sunday departure. On waking however, the day was wet and blowing and there had even been sea spray coming over the huge breakwater walls that form this harbour; so we stayed another day.
As mentioned earlier, Mackay has an enormous tide range of over 5 m. As the picture left shows, this is manifest very clearly in the slope of the ramps from the marina up to shore and the amount of exposed tidal marks on the rocks. In fact, people in the know, tend to avoid moving heavy trollies at low tide as its just too hard to get them up the ramp!
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