Time to start heading home

Thursday, 1 September to Wednesday, 7 September 2022

We left Coral Seas Marina and had a quick sail in a strong SE wind to Happy Bay on Long Island. This anchorage has excellent TV reception - necessary to watch the knockout final of the Lions versus Richmond. 

Happy Bay

After dinner we settled down to watch the game, not expecting a power cat to suddenly appear 1m off the stern. It was a 20 knot wind against tide situation and boats were careening all over the bay. 

All those boats would create chaos later in the evening

We decided it was safer to move, so at 2045 we upped anchor and headed across to Cid Island. We knew there was plenty of room here and were confident to anchor at night. Unfortunately, we hadn't gone far when we lost the TV reception. It was the last quarter and the lead had been constantly changing. We eventually found a radio station with the game and a last minute goal gave the Lions a win by 2 points. 

Where are we??

On Friday morning we tacked down to Burning Point on Shaw Island, 3 groups of whales seen on the way. 

No going ashore October to March to let the curlews breed

On Saturday, we sailed to Roylen Bay on Goldsmith Island to sit out the strong SE winds due for the next 3 days. Where were the northerlies we needed to go south?

It's a wonder we are still smiling after the number of laps we did of this bay

Eventually on Tuesday, the wind had eased enough to sail to Brampton Island, still into a SE wind.

Lighter winds still on Wednesday so we tacked out to Scawfell Island. We haven't been here for several years and moorings are now in place close to the beach. I had forgotten what a beautiful island it is. We had headed out here to get a better angle for the winds expected for the next few days - winds that would finally let us cover more miles to the south (Hunter Island - 80nm).

Beautiful Scawfell Island

You can camp on the island

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