Monday 2nd and Tuesday 3rd
October 2017
The weather has finally turned against us.
Monday is very wet and very windy, and we are pretty much restricted to indoors
for the day.
We watched a movie, did some reading, went
for a grief walk when there was a break in the rain, and hosted Sundowners with
Brian and Eric making the effort to come around in the rain.
The wind howled overnight and there was
very heavy rainfall, fortunately we managed to BBQ our dinner before it really
set in .
Tuesday started with a little more promise
with an overcast morning, but at least it wasn’t raining and we were able to
walk out along the breakwall to the river entrance. It was low tide, but not
pretty. We did see a large commercial fishing boat punch his way out through the
white water across the entrance, but it was not something we would do.
On the way back to the boat, we called into
the Fish Market and bought 2 kg of very
fresh headless green prawns, which went straight into the freezer.
Carole did the laundry, whilst I went off
with my jerry cans to get diesel (our regular in port routine).
Once our chores were out of the way we
walked into town, still not raining much at this stage, to get a haircut, buy
some fresh fruit and veg and have lunch.
By the time we got back to the boat it was
4pm. We are expected at Dalwhinnie for
sundowners at 5pm, so there is just time for putting the shopping away and
showers.
Of course, the closer it gets to 5 pm , the
heavier the rain becomes. Nevertheless, we found our way around to Dalwhinnie
with Pip and Marg from Moonshadow. Run to Paradise , another CCCA member has
arrived on Dalwhinnie’s arm of the marina and are also invited to sundowners
and have similar plans to us, leaving tomorrow.
It now seems there may be 4 of us heading
down into Moreton Bay tomorrow to take the inside passage to Southport, as the
sea state outside Moreton Island still looks pretty uncomfortable. The
compromise is a day of shallow water navigation to get to Southport on
Thursday.
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