Playing tourguides in the Whitsunday Island

After some pretty ordinary days, weather wise, we made our way back to Airlie Beach to make the boat ready for our first visitors for this trip. Of course I was very excited because our visitors were daughter and partner (April and Michael). Shopping for supplies – you have to have goodies onboard for kids [...]

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Whitsunday Islands continue

We ventured off from Airlie Beach and motored across to Butterfly Bay which is on Whitsunday Island and a lovely spot protected from the bad weather. However it is still subjected to bullets of gusty wind that channel between the islands. We were all tucked up and had picked up a mooring which we thought [...]

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Arrival at the Whitsunday’s

A short trip to Rosslyn Bay Marina on 1/7 of about 1 and ½ hours left us in the lap of luxury for about twelve days, i.e. power, water, showers and all the facilities of Yeppoon and Rockhampton. Met some interesting people as usual and made friends with Bill and Sue from the yacht Dreamtime, [...]

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Travelling in Ariel

In the past week we have come a long way from the last entry at Pancake Creek.  We left Pancake to travel through the” Narrows” which is a body of water between the main land and Curtis Island. They call it the narrows because that’s exactly what it is.  The sailing and motoring up these [...]

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Tuesday 15th June – A hike to Bustard Head Lighthouse

The weather has not changed, it is still terrible. It has only rained a little today but the breeze is still 25knots with gusts of 30knots and it is still cold. To our surprise this morning several boats left before we got out of bed, I have no idea where they were going but it [...]

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