Over the top
Simanderal
Michael Hughes and Ger White
Fri 17 Jun 2011 11:53
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We've now past Cape York--the northermost point of
mainland Australia--and are anchored in Seisia. The winds have been good to us
for the last several days--plenty of it from aft the beam--and we've had some
great fast passages up the coast, anchoring every night behind a cape or an
island. Last night we were anchored off Mount Adolphus Island in the Torres
Straights. And today we mwde a short--30 mile --passage down Endeavour Straight
to Seisia, a small remote township on the coast where we could do some
provisioning before setting off across the Gulf of Carpentaria. Lovely quiet
anchorage--happy to go ashore during the day, but decided to give it a miss in
the dark--there are crocs about!!
Entrance to the Seisia anchorage was
interesting--very shallow water for the last mile--did my tidal calcs carefully
and concluded we should have 3 metres at shallowest point--giving 0.9m under the
keel--and to my delight--and relief--it was dead on!! The tides here are
also monsters--we had over 4 knots of tide with us on passage, bringing us down
the Straight at 11 knots.
So a restful afternoon today, and tomorrow we'll
have a relaxed morning and then set off at noon on the 3 day passage to
Gove--provided I don't go aground on the way
out!
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