To Airlie Beach
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Fri 3 Jun 2016 22:57
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To Abell Point Marina, Airlie
Beach
 We woke this morning to a high tide,
so different a view than at low. All ready to set off at half eight. We have
really enjoyed it here at Cid Harbour.
 Todays fifteen
mile journey, an easy one.
 Ahead Mollie
Island and beyond we could see the mainland.
 Behind us we were leaving the rain.
 Back to Mollie, we saw an amazing
sight – a low-lying rainbow actually growing before
our eyes.
 A little
bigger.
 Full view.
 Moving and
fading.
 Looking around Mollie, a resort on Daydream Island. The sun
hasn’t got out of bed yet.........
 Away to our right, Gloucester Island - the furthest, faintest island in the
middle.
 Ahead, our first
look at Airlie Beach.
 Behind us, the Whitsunday Islands.
 Amazingly, the water depth out this
far is twelve metres, ever so slowly dropping to four near the marina. Abell Point Marina looks diddy (over to the right) but it
has a whopping five hundred and seven berths.
 A very
parsey pad on Pioneer Point.
 I lined up between the
two outer markers and entered passing the welcome
sign.
 Passing the outer wall on the right. A very different way in, as in
the picture below.
 Ahead, the inner
markers.
  We always
ask for ‘something easy as Beez has a lady
driver’, sometimes it really works. Through the inner markers and into an
enormous space, straight down to G3, a whole
catamaran space for us and Alex was there waiting to take ropes and hand over a
welcome pack. Originally from Eastbourne, here for fifteen years, he was full of
helpful suggestions and then mentioned we can use one of the marina cars for two
hours shopping twice in a week.
  The enormous space, now behind us. To our right a full service boatyard. Bear went off to do the office
stuff, I changed the bed and gathered the laundry. While Bear was out he popped
in to the electrical people. Our brain is telling us we have 30% charge when
really it’s about 75%. Mmmm. So looking forward to standing under a shower for
ages, rather than feeling we mustn’t use too much water, that’s after I get the
mower to the skippers face and head.
 Beside us
on the pontoon we have our very own
reef.
ALL IN ALL RAINBOWS TO
WELCOMES
A SHORT HOP FROM THE RAIN TO THE
SUNSHINE |