The decision to head to Gladstone was due to Pete having to go back to Sydney for another meeting, as well as our desire not to leave the Bunker and Capricorn Groups unexplored. We had also never been to Gladstone, so we felt it was a good opportunity to see this part of Australia. In addition, […]

We had a very quiet night at anchor in Pancake and were woken around 6:15 am, by Marquise and Koonya, departing the anchorage. We slowly got ourselves in gear, and left about an hour later, following their sails on the horizon. The southeaster gradually strengthened up from 8 knots, and we ended up spanking along […]

We had a cracking sail up to Pancake Creek, arriving around 3pm, beating Kandu but not Supertramp, who was comfortably anchored between Koonya and Marquise. We set our anchor on the same co-ordinates as last time, near a catamaran who should have been in the shallower section! He had gone by morning. Intending to have […]

On Friday morning we got up early to make the best use of still having the Ute for provisioning. We managed to fit in a visit to the farm produce shop, Coles, OPSM in Sugarland to pick up my contact lenses, a trip to the courthouse for Pete to get a stat dec signed for […]

Monday dawned bright and warm again and after a double coffee and breakfast I got to work on the stern polishing. On Sunday we had had two new boats arrive on the arm, both from Sydney. I had chatted briefly to them to let them know I would have a car on Monday to pick […]

Friday morning passed with washing, showers, breakfast and Pete packing stuff he has decided is superfluous. By 10.30 we were ready to pick up the hire car and head to the airport. However, it wasn’t a car – it was a ute! Fab, I so love a ute and as I was the driver, even […]

I thought I would share some of our photos from the camera including some underwater shots.

Sleep is once again eluding me. Despite a week now with no alcohol and care taken with what I eat, I am struggling to sleep well. On the anchor at Burnett Heads, I had two terrible nights, and failed to do any catching up during the day. So on departure at 6 am on Monday, […]

We motor sailed back across Hervey Bay on Saturday, having exhausted our enthusiasm for Fraser Island and being very keen to try to get to Lady Musgrave. It looked like there was going to be a period of relatively settled weather which would give us the best opportunity, but we needed to provision first. We […]

As planned we departed Port of Bundaberg Marina around 9 am having filled with diesel. As we exited the heads and entered the shipping fairway, contrary to the forecast there was a 10 knot south easterly blowing, which of course was exactly where we wanted to head! We played around with the waypoints a bit, […]