The wind came in as forecast at around 6am, hitting 35 knots at Hamilton Island and a bit over 25 knots here at Airlie. The marina is well protected from due South where the wind is coming from today.
For us, activity revolves around shopping and a bit of boat maintenance. Late morning we walked into Cannonvale to do a small shop at Woolies and the local butcher, who has very good meat. I made up a new anchor chain snubber bridle and polished a scratch out of one of the acrylic windows. Otherwise it was a pretty relaxing day.
The wind eases and strengthens all day and is quite gusty, but not as wild as we expected it to be. At several times during the day, the conditions out on the water look quite good, but the observation data from Hamilton Island showed that out in the islands, the winds were strong 25 to 30 knots for much of the day.
After lunch we went for another walk to stretch our legs, wandering into Airlie. It is a bit quieter around the marina precinct ( maybe the wind has led to a few cancellations of day trips etc), but the number of boats in here has increased significantly, and they claim to be almost fully booked from now until after Hamilton Island race week finishes on 22nd August.
It is a bit quiet, even the Shaggers Vice Commodores table at the kiosk is vacant
Our daughter Nicole is coming to spend a week with us in early September, so we have already made the necessary marina bookings to pick her up and drop her off.
We had dinner on board Mica with Steve and Kim Smith.
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