Yeh time gets away sometimes.......
We anchored by Great Keppel Island for a couple of nights but the swell was a bit uncomfortable so we decided to head to Keppel Bay Marina for a few nights.
As Isy had some centrelink bumf to sort out it worked out fine. I think apart from the views from Abel Point Marina this is the best 1 we have seen. Very user friendly and great food at the restaurant there. The staff are realy friendly and relaxed too. The inevitable hired car gave us a chance to look around a little and we went to the Singing ship memorial at Emu Park.
So a few days turned into nearly a week as the weather cycled through and we left on wednesday morning to go further south. Anchoring off Humocky Island after 4 hours made for an easy days run.
Once again a bit rolly but we were there so that was that. Thursday had us running down past Gladstone with its large commercial traffic, though most ere at anchor there was 2 inbound we kept an eye on.
Passing Cape Capricorn lighthouse means we are now out of the tropics.
1 of the 30 or so ships waiting to get into Gladstone.
Our stop was in Pancake Creek, a tidal system behind Bustard Head.
Looks wide and inviting but it dries to many channels and we had to be in the deeper section.
Friday there was a strong north west front move in and caused us all to swing about, some dragged anchors and had to reposition themselves including us. All ok though and just part of keeping watch, the quite strong tide run adds to the interest as well.
This is the view saturday lunchtime at low tide, thats a huge sandbank ideal for the crew to run on.
Theres 2 metres plus water there at high tide.
We plan to move on to Bundaberg maybe monday if the winds are kind, if not well more walks and chilling out !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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