Afternoon Tea in the Tropics - Blunt Bay, Northeast Percy Island, Queensland, Australia

Harmonie
Don and Anne Myers
Fri 21 May 2010 02:17
21:39.181S  150:20.045E
 
This is what we do now - drink tea and play games in the afternoon with Aussies while anchored off attractive tropical islands near the base of the Great Barrier Reef.  Scary, sad and maybe a little bit twisted, but true.
 
On May 3rd, we followed our track out of the Island Head Creek anchorage (no need to employ the dual-denial watch system since we used the same track to go out as we did to come in) and sailed a very pleasant 50ish miles in perfect wind to Northeast Percy Island.  This was our last planned stop before heading in to the city of Mackay's marina to restock, plug into the internet, do a few 'proper' loads of laundry and most importantly, eat out.  Island hopping is fantastic, but restaurants are few and far between on uninhabited, undeveloped national park islands.
 
After seven hours of happy, mostly downwind sailing, we did in fact drink tea and play Rummikub with John and Sue in Harmonie's cockpit upon arrival in the empty Blunt Bay next to the uninhabited, undeveloped Northeast Percy Island.  After that it was an early night to prepare for the long 70ish mile sail from Percy Island to the city of Mackay (pronounced Mac-kye) on the mainland.
 
Picture 1 - Don providing dinghy taxi service for John and Sue from Storyteller to Harmonie.  All this island hopping has meant intense use of our dinghy-shaped car.
 
Picture 2 - Evidence of tea drinking and Rummikub playing in the cockpit.  Note the nice view of scruffy, red-rock, uninhabited Northeast Percy Island in the background.
 
Anne

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