MP Boat Harbour
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Mon 23 May 2016 22:47
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Middle Percy Boat
Harbour
 We had a bit of a rolly old night and
didn’t sleep all that well so we woke a little later than usual at seven. Bear
pottered about the ‘estate’ this morning and I wrote a blog. Knock knock. Our
lovely visitors were Richard and Val from Kereru – also on the
Indonesian rally. I immediately wanted to settle in the cockpit for a chat but
Bear had a bee in his bonnet, a fancy to spuddle over in Baby Beez to
explore Boat Harbour while the tide was in. It turns
out that the wind is going to be miniscule tomorrow so on the spot we have
decided to stay another day, plenty of time to chat to our new friends who also
were popping ashore. We loaded ourselves and went over to say ‘hello’ to
Sheer Pleasure, Paul and Annie overtook us just before they paired off
to Kingfisher Resort, and they anchored next to us at Lady Musgrave Island and
beside us here. They invited us over for sundowners with their two house guests
Paul and Julie and Kereru at four thirty, smashing.
Off we went for
our spuddle, the entrance to Boat Harbour looked so
different today with the tide in.
 The sandy nooks
had disappeared.
  The rocks
were still impressive.
 So different to see the channel buoys floating.
  The trimaran was
floating and the sandbank although very shallow was
covered with water.
  The far left ended with mangroves. Up close, Silver Gull
III looked lovely in the afternoon sunshine.
 We turned, at the far end – a mini boatyard.
 Halfway,
opposite the ‘doorway in’, such a noise from fruit bats and cockatoos. Somewhere
up in the high ground is the homestead.
 The shopping
girl for the island.
 In front of her, a
dry dock, well much of the time.
  The far end mangroves.
 Turning it was hard to believe the
size of this natural sanctuary.
ALL IN ALL A UNIQUE
HARBOUR
AN AMAZING CYCLONE
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