2nd May 2012
Early to bed, early to rise
24’45.588 S – 152’23.180 E
Warm, cloudy slight breeze
In the evening John and I are found to be sitting in the
saloon each reading our current book. Reading has always made me very relaxed
and I find that I am close to nodding off so we usual hit the sack round 2100.
During the early hours of the morning we were getting the wind against a strong
tidal flow which made the anchor bridle (A rope attached to both sides of a boat on the bows then hooked together on the anchor chain to keep the
chain central to the hulls) begin to chatter against the hull of the
boat. I buried my head deeper in the pillow but not so John. He was up jumping
all over the trampoline on the deck trying to quieten the bridle but John was
making more noise that the bridle – sounded like a herd of elephants s dancing
on the deck. John came back to be d but not for long we had both lost our
sleep.
A nice warm cup of tea was deposited by the bed; I knew
John would be playing on his computer so with the big bed to myself I snuggled
down and once more fell asleep to be rudely woken by the engines starting. Good
morning world – hello!
Now I am up and out and running - we are soon underway.
There is little or no wind this morning – not better than yesterday. What has
happened to all that wind that was predicted???
Sunrise across Fraser Island |
Motor-sailing again we make our way across Hervey Bay
water to the mouth of the Burnett River, Bundaberg. It is 1500h when I radio
the Bundaberg VMR to log off out trip for the day. John and I believe in
logging on and off with the VMR or Coast Guard whenever we sail the coast line;
we both think that it is a matter of safety and our safety is important. The
same as we send a text message to some family and friend to let them know our
where about; it is all a safety issue, we are both big believers in “safety
first”.
We motor up the Burnett River Past the Sugar Mill Wharf
to see if our friends off Neriki are still there. There is no sign of their
boat and after a phone call I find that Neriki is nearly at Pancake Creek. John
turns AR around and we drop the pick just off the Bundaberg Port Marina.
Sunset on the Burnett River |
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