Vacationing in Brammo Bay, Dunk Island, Queensland, Australia
Harmonie
Don and Anne Myers
Mon 7 Jun 2010 23:40
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On Memorial Day (5/31/2010) while you were
hopefully having a cookout under a bright summer sky, we were sailing with
just enough of a gentle wind to take us from the purple mountains of
Hinchinbrook Island, past a series of tiny drowned mountain islands, to
Dunk Island about twenty miles to the northwest. There we caught up with
several other boats headed exactly the same way we are - to Darwin to join the
Sail Indonesia rally in late June. There are over 100 boats signed up for
this rally and we knew we were bound to start running into some of them sooner
or later. At this point on the eastern Australian coast, boats
are either heading north to Cairns and then on to Papua-New Guinea, or to
Cairns, then Darwin and on to Indonesia. No one goes south at this time of
year because the trade winds blow from the southeast, and we all know it's no
fun to sail into the wind. Besides, it's winter down there.
We stayed at Dunk Island two nights - just
long enough to walk the island circuit trail and then hang out at the small Dunk
Island resort pretending to be on vacation from our retired boating
life.
Picture 1 - View from the top of Dunk Island.
There are several drowned mountain islands in the foreground with the
mountainous mainland in the background.
Picture 2 - One of the many beaches we passed on
our way around the Dunk Island circuit walking trail.
Picture 3 - John, Sue, Tony and Don pretending to
be on vacation from their retired boating lives while lounging around the pool
at the Dunk Island resort.
Anne
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