Just had a look outside at 6.30am. It is overcast with about a 9 knot SE breeze. Seas don't look too bad at this stage. We head out at 8 am and as soon as we round Hexham Island and head south the wind is already 15 knots from the SE , once again it is futile putting up a sail as we are heading due SE, and it would take us forever to get to our destination tacking. We saw so many whales along the way we lost count
Cooinda motoring to Pearl Bay
For the first half of the trip the sun is out and the seas are only around 1.2m. Then it started to rain and visibility reduced to a few hundred metres at best. We arrived at Pearl Bay around 2.30pm, with the help of a strong current for the last 2 hours, and as we were entering the bay we had to contend with a whale slowly swimming across the entrance.
Our depth sounder wasn't working and it is quite a shallow anchorage, so we followed Cooinda in and chose a spot roughly where we were before. I used the portable depth sounder I had bought as a backup to check the the depth before anchoring.
Once settled, we changed into dry clothes and had lunch.
Today is Mike's birthday, so Carole is cooking a baked lamb roast on the cobb and has made an apple pie for the occasion. We have invited Rod & Lee to dinner to join us. The rain is still coming down steadily. They arrive just after 5pm in full foul weather gear.
Roast Lamb for dinner
We had an excellent meal and soon forget about the rain, until it was time for Rod & Lee to go back to Cooinda, once again in full foul weather gear.
We plan to go to Yeppoon tomorrow. We cannot get a weather forecast as there is no mobile, internet or VHF reception in Pearl Bay. Rod is going to try on HF. All we can be certain of is that it will be wet and blowing strongly from the SE.
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