Friday 3rd September
Another early start as we head South for Cape Upstart. We left at 6.15am. We didn't even consider stopping at Cape Bowling Green, so settled in for 70nm trip into a 15 knot SE breeze. We could motor sail for most of the way, tacking our way down the coast where necessary, but the motor ran all day, finally arriving at Cape Upstart at 5.30pm.
We saw a whale in Cleveland Bay, ut other than that it was an uneventful trip.
We anchored in Shark Bay, at around the same spot as on the way up, but in much milder conditions.
At around midnight a NE change came through with gusts over 20 knots. This soon livened up the swell and we were back to the rock & roll that Upstart Bay delivered on the way up.
Nevertheless we got a reasonable nights sleep and plan to head to the Whitsundays in the morning on another long leg, bypassing Gloucester Passage where we stayed on the way up.
If the NE breeze holds we should have a good run.
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