More Gray - South White Cliffs, Fraser Island, Queensland, Auststralia
Harmonie
Don and Anne Myers
Fri 30 Apr 2010 11:29
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25:31.666S 152:58.054E
Storyteller joined us in Garry's Anchorage
on April 23rd, and on the 24th we continued together another 18 miles up
the Great Sandy Strait. We rode the tide over the shallowest sand flats
which were less than one meter at low tide. The incoming tide gave us just
enough water depth to scrape over the sandy bottom (we need 2.1 meters of depth
to clear), and on top of that, it was raining again, so the extra millimeter of
rain probably didn't hurt. We passed the point in the strait where the
incoming tide from the south meets the incoming tide from the north, which meant
we were then motoring (there was no wind) against a current of 1.5 knots, so we
gave it up for the day and pulled over into an area called South White
Cliffs to anchor. There wasn't much to look at aside from a few whitish
cliffs, lots of other anchored boats, plenty of mosquitoes,
more rain and another rainbow (picture 1).
We stayed one night and moved on to Bundaberg the
next day.
Anne
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