Tiny and Drab - Mourilyan Harbour, Queensland, Australia
Harmonie
Don and Anne Myers
Mon 7 Jun 2010 23:44
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Vacation over, we left Dunk Island on June 2nd and
motored through completely calm water to drab Mourilyan Harbour on the
mainland.
Picture 1 - The highlight of the day was stopping
for lunch at Kent Island. Its sand beach is shown here under an
increasingly cloudy sky which didn't promote dry laundry. We thought about
staying overnight here, but the coral heads lurking nearby in combination with
the more-than-what-would-be-comfortable bit of swell rolling in convinced us to
move on to Mourilyan Harbour.
Picture 2 - Tiny and drab Mourilyan
Harbour boasts only one thing - a sugar loading facility. This was our
view from the sliver of just-barely-deep-enough water we were anchored in.
Sometimes it wasn't quite deep enough. We found this out when we chugged
in to drop anchor and promptly went aground on the mud bottom. Oops.
After weaseling ourselves off the bottom using the bow thruster, we repositioned
the boat and dropped anchor. An hour later when the tide turned, we swung
around and bumped into the ground again. This time we pulled up the anchor
and repositioned in slightly deeper water as close to the edge of the sugar
loading swing basin as possible. Then we spent a very quiet
night in the still waters of the harbor. Only the sound of our hands
slapping away sand flies and mosquitoes broke the perfect silence. That,
and the sound of Storyteller's generator purring two doors down in the mud
puddle anchorage.
We weren't sorry to get up bright and early the
next day for the forty mile trip to Fitzroy Island.
Anne
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