Saturday 26th September 2015
It was a very peaceful night in Island Head
Creek and it was an early night with a good nights sleep.
We have limited internet service here if I
send the modem up the mast, and after getting up at 6am for a planned 7 am
departure, I checked the weather forecast. It took about 15 minutes just to get
some basic info off the BOM site, and it was not good. Wind 15-20 knots from
the SE (here that means 20 -30 knots), and big seas have not yet settled. I was
on the radio early to Wilparina and we agreed to stay here another day, as
neither of us were keen on a repeat of yesterday.
This morning was spent doing boat
maintenance, mainly washing all of the salt off the stainless steel and
polishing it. The tool draw , which jumped out during the sail on Friday also
needed some make shift repairs to the slide rollers, which didn’t handle the
unexpected opening when the boat heeled well. Other than that, t was just
replacing a few worn split rings on the safety lines and tightening up the
staunchions.
Carole baked a loaf of bread, as we are now
out of the supermarket supplied loaves. It was a great success.
We had Steve and Kim over for a BBQ lunch
and they had spent the morning doing boat jobs as well. We had a nice lunch,
discussed our plans for tomorrow with limited internet supplied forecast
material and taking into account the tides.
BBQ on Mica
We need to get out of here at least
a mid tide and into Yeppoon at least mid tide, as there are shallow depth
issues there in the marina as well. Based on our current infomation, we will
head out tomorrow morning for Yeppoon planning to arrive there at around 5pm.
We will check the forecast in the morning before we finally commit.
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