We spent Sunday at anchor in Pancake Creek. In daylight it was clear that Rod was still having trouble getting his mainsail down and the sail was roughly tied around the boom. He spent a good part of the day further investigating the problem.
Rod in a familiar stance working on Cooinda's mainsail furler
First priority in the morning was to get the fishing lines out and we were quickly rewarded with , one unidentified (but undersized fish a bit to a whiting but with tropical markings), 2 honeycomb cod (undersized), and school mackeral (also undersized) and a tuskfish that was legal, so finally we had something we could eat. Lee caught a sizeable stingray.
Honeycomb cod
After breakfast (Kathy kept her promise to cook us pancakes for breakfast at Pancake Creek- they were excellent !), we lowered the dinghy overboard and motored in to a nearby beach in a very strongly flowing tide which seems to be a feature of Pancake Creek. Good shelter from the SE swell, but quite shallow with a strong tidal flow, at least where we anchored in the outer anchorage.
When we could see the creek at low tide it was clear how careful you needed to be in not straying from the nav aids. Rod and Lee came to grief here 6 years ago, and apparently, then, even the basic nav aids were not there.
We had a good walk around on shore, sampled the oysters, it was a very scenic area and sheltered from the still howling South Easter. By the time we decided to go back to the boat the tide had gone out considerably and we could walk our dinghy half way back to the boat.
Beach at Pancake Creek
Carole checking the oysters
It is still too cold to swim, although David has made a couple of attempts.
As there was little shelter from the wind, and the forecast is for around 20 knots SE for the next few days, we decided to head off tomorrow for Rosslyn Bay (Yeppoon).
Rod will be sailing on his headsail only, so has decided to leave at 1 am as he expects to be a bit slow. We plan to head off at 5 am.
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