Whitsunday Wandering

Monday, 26 August 2013 - Eco Resort to Airlie Beach
After watching a lot of yachts heading north from Shaggers on Sunday and Monday, we raised sails and headed back to Airlie Beach. Our son Josh and his girlfriend Jo arrive on Friday for a few days and then we join the Multihull Rendezvous for a week.

It was a hard 35nm into a 20knot SE breeze. We put the first reef in near Gumbrell Island and tacked into the bays to avoid the worst of the seas.

On Wednesday we headed across the passage to Stonehaven. Warren caught a nice school mackeral and then a spotted mackeral as he was pulling in the other lure. Fresh fish for dinner!

Friday, 30 August 2013 - Nara Inlet to Cid Harbour
We sailed down from Nara Inlet to Hamilton Island to pick up Josh and Jo for a few days. With the wind predicted to be 15-20kn for their stay, we decided to stay on the inside of the islands. We had a nice run down from Hamilton and were anchored in Cid Harbour just before 1700.

Saturday we sailed/motored up to Blue Pearl Bay for a snorkel. We headed around to Butterfly Bay where we got a mooring but moved around to Stonehaven as there was a nasty swell rolling into the bay.

Sunday we headed across to Langford reef where Josh and Jo paddled ashore before Josh tried to get more shots with his GoPro. I got some nice footage of a turtle swimming by - they are obviously used to snorkellers in the water!

Sunday afternoon we sailed back to Airlie as Josh and Jo were flying out of Proserpine on Monday morning. Dinner at Sorrento Restaurant to celebrate Father's Day ended a great couple of days with Josh and Jo.

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