Another front heading this way so we are up early with the plan to go to Forster Tuncurry, a trip of 46nm. The sailing was perfect all day, SW/W wind that averaged 15 knots in the morning and eased a little in the afternoon. It was so good we decided to keep going to Coffs Harbour as the weather reports for tomorrow became steadily worse during the day.
A pod of 3 whales entertained us for an hour as we cruised with them up the coast. They breeched numerous times and amused themselves by slapping their tails and fins. They weren't even deterred when we had to start our motors as the breeze eased about 1600 and went around to the N/NW. As usual my timing of photos was off.
After 8 hours of motoring, we decided Port Macquarie looked a good option so decided to cross the bar just after midnight. There was very little swell and about 10 knots of westerly so we thought conditions ideal. A couple of largish waves as we approached surprised us but we entered the river without issue and took up one of the marina moorings up the river.We spent today here sitting out the weather and plan to head off again tomorrow if the forecast is suitable for the trip to Coffs. Print this post
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Oh, the Port Macquarie Bar - leaving there was our biggest fright so we hope you have a smoother ride out than we did. Say hi to the marina manager from us - we enjoyed our week there in November.
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