Portland Roads to Shelburn Bay
Gaviota
Thu 23 Jun 2016 03:51
11:53.730S 143:05.420E
Left
Portland Roads Sunday, 19th June and it was a beautiful morning, we
put the 2 genoas out and a lovely 15-20 knot South Easterly blew. The reef system is now getting more and more
dense and we are a lot of the time in the main shipping channel so the hazard
of huge tankers and container ships is constant so it was a lot of altering
course and keeping watch. We maintained
a good speed and decided to press on a bit further than planned, passing
through the channel between Cape Grenville and the Home Islands (totally remote
and stunning with another luxury resort!).
The sun shone and the wind dropped which made the last 3 miles hard work
but we arrived and anchored off Round Point in Shelburne Bay. Next stop Escape River and then Cape York –
the most Northerly point of Queensland.