After the walk ashore on Great Keppel Island we decided there was nothing keeping us from heading North again sooner rather than later. Great Keppel still has some magnificent beaches but there is more and better in the Whitsunday Islands, our ultimate goal.
The weather was due to lighten off sometime this evening and tomorrows forecast didn't offer much wind either so we lunched, lashed the dinghy and readied the boat for sea to try and get as far North as we can since we still had some breeze.
We cleared the shelter of our anchorage and hoisted full sail in the 10-15 knot easterly breeze which we managed to keep until midnight somewhere off Port Clinton where the wind died. We then ran the engine most of the time, with a few forays of breeze in between, until we reached the Middle Percy Island anchorage around 9am. A swim then brunch and it was time to go ashore and explore a bit of the island.
There is a shelter just up from the beach where yachties past have placed name boards to commemorate their visit to this interesting island. I husked a coconut on the spike provided then Dan captured the moment when I managed to take the top clean off the nut with a blow from an old pair of pliers and drank the milk out of the now cup shaped nut. The flesh was sweet as well.
An afternoon siesta back on Wildflower then ashore again at high tide to dinghy up the creek once visited by Matthew Flinders. Here we found and filmed a colony of bats or flying foxes roosting in the mangroves. We also visited and chatted with some other Yachties on the beach before returning to the boat as the sun set over the sea.
Another great day in the tropics
Wayne
Sailing Vessel Wildflower
sv.ambler(at)amosconnect.com
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