Sunday 25th May 2008 – Rosslyn Bay to Island Head Creek

Departed 0610, SE 10-15 building to 20 knots
Another predawn start - those that know Warren and I may doubt we are on the go this early. If you have 60 nautical miles to cover then an early start is necessary. We used 6 knots as an average when calculating our trip so 10 hours has us arriving at 1600. You don’t want to be any later when going to an unfamiliar anchorage. Luckily the wind was favourable and we had a spinnaker run most of the way and arrived at the entrance of the creek at 1340.

The creek was much bigger than we expected. We had a choice of anchorages and went for the one towards the head of the creek. Very quiet and only one other boat with no sign of life on board (we were soon to discover why). Warren went to lay the crabpots while I tidied up. We noticed a few bugs so put down the canvas covers for the saloon and lit the mozzie coil. Had our showers and settled down for a quiet drink when we noticed bugs had made their way into the saloon area…..lots of bugs!! We retreated below, turned off the lights and hoped they wouldn’t follow. We awoke to the sight at left!! Zillions of dead bugs that took hours to clean.