South Golburn Island to Valentia Island

Saturday 27^th October 2012

South Golburn Island to Valentia Island

11’23.643S – 132’47.243E

storm clouds building

Another six o’clock start! This seems to have become the norm on most of our passages.
Leaving S. Golburn we set a course straight across Aurari Bay for De Courcy Point which then took us around Cape Cockburn at 1140hs down into Mountnorris Bay to Valentia Island where MrJ and I dropped anchor on the southern side just off a beautiful stretch of sandy beach in 5mtr of water at 1350hs.

Cape Cockburn

The morning started our very humid with little wind and low lying cloud threatening to drop a shower.

The showers never came, the cloud still hung around for hours and the morning’s temperature grew hotter. This is what you get up north in the build up to the monsoonal wet season before the rains begin.

the northerlies had also brought the algae

didn't catch a thing.....!

In our secluded anchorage AR was far enough out from the shore for us to be able to catch the coolness of the gentle afternoon sea breeze that zipped through a low valley between the thick tree covered little island. No going ashore, the sticky heat had taken away all our strength and motivation. I grabbed a couple of comfy cockpit cushion, a good book and a large bottle of refreshing cold water and stretched out under the shade of our large covers catching a beautiful breeze as I rested and refuelled my body.