Month: July 2007

We met with James and Lisa and wined and dined the evenings away, sailed around to Whitehaven Beach and lit the barbeque for lunch. After saying good bye to James and Lisa we opted to stay at the marina for a further two nights. The comforts of tv reception and given a formula 1 was…

The lack of water put added pressure on us to move on even though the wind was still blowing 20-25knots and seas to 2.2metres. As we started out, it was rough and we had at least 6 hours of these conditions ahead of us. Later in the day as we changed course and headed with…

Here we are anchored next to this lovely lighthouse at Sea Hill Point. A very comfortable anchorage resulting in a sound sleep. In fact we slept so soundly that we did not notice we were dragging anchor and when we woke we found ourselves 1 mile up and around the corner from where we had…

Today, we moved from Bundaberg and travelled over 60 miles to Pancake Creek. It was an uneventful, yet comfortable day sail with this recently restored lighthouse reflecting our largest “high-light” for the day. We anchored late in the afternoon and as we sat to relax with an ale taking in our views, the sun went…

Here we are anchored 4 miles into the Burnett River. The township of Bundabeg is a further hour (7 miles) and requires an appropriate tide height to navigate. It’s been a long day sail from Hervey Bay so we opted to anchor short of the township.