We are having a second day lay over at Seisia waiting for a
weather window to cross the Gulf – a 60+ hour non-stop passage. So we’ll use this down time to fill in the
bits of the trip when we were out of contact.
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| Bathurst Bay |
Saturday and Sunday were spent at Lizard Island, snorkeling and bushwalking. On Monday,
11/06, we had a dawn start away from Lizard
Island to Bahthurst Bay. It was a 15 hour sail, 78 nm. We woke to an alien landscape of bizarre
hills that looked like a giant dump truck piled rocks on top of each other to
make mountains.
The next day we sailed to Flinders Group
Islands where I saw two
sea turtles and there is rumoured a 2 m crocodile lives in one of the
creeks. We didn’t bother to go ashore to
meet it.
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| Flinders Group Islands |
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| Early Morning starts |
The next couple of days were more pre-dawn starts first to Morris Island
then to Portland Roads, each day doing about 60 nm.
On Friday the 15th going from Portland Roads to Shelburne Bay we had the company of two dolphins
who played in our bow wave for about 10 minutes. It was a thrill watching these beautiful
creatures.
Saturday was a 4 am start out of Shelburne
Bay to Escape River. On the way a mad German 70 year old ex-Lufthansa
pilot sailing his 42 foot Beneteau single handed caught a 10lb tuna and gave us
half. It made an excellent fish curry.
Day 12 at sea was very exciting. We went through the Albany Passage and over
the Top End of Australia. Beautiful!
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| The Top End |
Now we are relaxing in the lovely little town of Seisia, indulging in
fresh water showers at the camping grounds, doing our laundry and socialising
with all the other yachties. More yachts
arrive each day and we now have quite a crowded anchorage of 24 boats of all
shapes and sizes (we are the second smallest) and from a dozen different
countries.
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