Little Pioneer Bay turned out to be an excellent anchorage well protected from the SE breeze. We pulled up anchor at 7 am to motor over to the entrance to Hinchinbrook Channel planning to get through the shallow entrance on the high tide. The southerly change was starting to build and had already reached 18 knots by the time we reached the sugar loading facility off Lucinda which protrudes almost 6 km out from the shore.
A bit bleak leaving Little Pioneer Bay
Despite going in on a full tide, at times we only had 0.7 m under the keel. Navigating the early part of the channel was marked by channel markers and was a bit of a convoluted path before you got to some clear water. The fishing must be good at high tide as there are tinnies everywhere, although we didn't see anyone land a fish.
We motored about 8nm up into the channel and anchored in a channel between Haycock Island and Reis point. To our surprise, Black & Tan was also anchored there so we reconnected with Ross and Marj over a cup of coffee and will catch up for drinks tonight on Mica.
Once we were settled we put out the crab traps and tried our luck at fishing. Only caught some undersized fish and nothing in the crab traps on last check.
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