Palm Isles is as far north as we go this season. Visiting
Cairns, Lizard and the reef around there will have to wait for next season as it’s
time to start heading south.
We leave Orpheus heading back to Magnetic Island, just for a
good night of sleep. Very early next morning we left towards the South.
Forecast was just for a couple of days ENE before the return of the south
easterlies so we decided we could stop at Cape Bowling Green for one night.
What a beautiful quiet and peaceful anchorage, with right weather of course. It’s
a very wide bay with a long beach and several fishing motor boats around being
quite close to Townsville. No other cruisers tonight. Oscar decided to try
fishing and soon enough he caught a wonderful fish. It was big enough for
several dinners.
Cape Bowling Green
Next day we left for an overnight towards Gloucester
Passage, with the idea to get a mooring at the ECO resort and wait there for
the next window to keep going south, but after a quiet overnight crossing we
arrived at the ECO resort to find the moorings untenable in northerly swell. We
went around and anchored in Breakfast Bay which was calm and protected however the forecast was not good for the area and we left soon after catching up on
some sleep. It must have been a good decision as it was an exodus of cruising boats;
I think we were one of the last to leave. Early that afternoon we arrived at
Hamilton Marina where we decided to stay for a couple of days to fix the lazy jack,
provision and hide from southerly change and strong winds.
So now, here we are, back in the Whitsundays.
G.
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