My apologies for being ‘off the air’ for so long but we have both been away attending to matters domestic. Anyway, we are now back on the boat after our respective trips home and we are ready to go. All we need is for the southerlies to stop.
The weather today is not bad but the weather tomorrow will be better so that’s the plan is to leave Mackay and push all the way to Rosslyn bay some 167 nm away. This will be somewhere between a 24 to 36 hrs trip dependent on the speed we achieve.
The not so good news is that as things look, we may get stuck in Rosslyn Bay for a time as the next round of Southerlies play their part. Still, I do like Rosslyn Bay as a location and we may be able to park the boat behind a headland somewhere just to avoid becoming ‘marina bound’.
Now its true that the time in the marinas has is down sides such as cost and lack of excitement but the relaxed lifestyle and the opportunity for domestics and little jobs such as fitting an isolation switch to the auto sump drain pump are on the plus side.
Departure out of here tomorrow will see us threading our way through the 50 or so anchored bulks carriers off Hay Point ( the pic at left only shows a small section of the area) and also doing battle with the tidal currents of Shoalwater Bay, which can be considerable. But, such is the nature of the beast and after all, none of this is any where near as electrifying as the first time encounter North bound.
“A pirate knows that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore"
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