To Cid Harbour
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Tue 31 May 2016 22:47
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To Cid Harbour, Whitsunday
Island
 We woke this morning in Tongue Bay, after a rolly ol’ night on the visitor’s buoy.
 Certainly lovely
scenery.
 A classic
lady coming in as we left at quarter past seven.
 This morning we have a fifteen mile journey through Hook Island Passage down the
west coast of Whitsunday Island.
 Looking right Hook
Island.
   Sailing with the genoa until we
rounded the corner at the top.
  Hook
Passage is 0.2 miles wide and we have to keep right of centre as there
are some naughty bommies sticking out from Whitsunday Island.
 Round we
go, the tidal current generally flows north but the Hook Passage has the
anomaly of flowing south on the ebb tide.
  Handy, the ferry
showed us the track.
  We waited for him to be on his way.
 Just a couple of
hundred feet from the right and we are in deep water.
 Safely through, we
take in the scenery of Hook Island.
  The passage behind
us begins to close once more.
    Unspoilt
scenery all around us.
 Ahead Cid
Harbour.
  I choose my spot
by the beach, as the water shallows gently Bear asks for around two
metres below. He gets two point one in pale
water.
 The water really is this shade of
azure blue.
 To our left Dugong
Bay a vast unsurveyed area, our spuddle target after lunch.
 A lovely evening in the cockpit
playing games and enjoying the sunset.
ALL IN ALL A LOVELY ANCHORAGE
A NICE DAY - MOVING
ONWARDS |