The southerly was still blowing 15-20knots as we left Shaw Island to head North to Cid Harbour. We motor sailed all the way with just a headsail up, pushing hard against a 3 knot current which had whipped the seas up quite a bit around the outside of Dent island.
Cooinda in the wash off Dent Island
We arrived at Cid Harbour around midday and the anchorage was already busy, a bit of a favourite with the bare boat charter boats. By late afternoon there were over 40 boats in the harbour.
After lunch we went ashore and took the trail to Dugong Beach, in quite sunny conditions with a much reduced breeze. The walk was around 1 km each way, and we decided we might be able to come back around the shoreline over the rocks. What started out to be a good idea quickly turned into some serious mountain climbing and it was some time before we discovered it was impassable an we had to go back the way we came and go back along the trail.
Ashore at Sawmill Beach
Goanna at Dugong Beach
Maybe we should have stuck to the track !
We were back on board a little after 4pm and Rod & Lee, and Ross & Marj (from Black & Tan) joined us for drinks. Rod & Lee stayed for a BBQ dinner on Mica.
Amazingly the southerly did not appear tonight and we had a good nights sleep.
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