Airlee Beach

Wednesday, 25 August 2010

We had a pleasant evening last night and a quiet night, no wind or swell.

Arrived over at the marina at Airlie Beach about lunch time, motored all the way across because, again, no wind. Moored up on the fuel wharf only to find that you have to book a time slot to re-fuel and we were holding up 2 vessels, the attendant was very obliging and after moving around a couple of times to let other boats in to re-fuel, we managed to fill up ourselves.

We had intended just to get fuel and stores and then go about 10 miles up the coast to anchor in Double Bay, but we were so long getting fuel that we decided to stay here the night. We found an un-occupied mooring and commandeered it, then took the dinghy across to get our stores. Only about 400 meters from the boat ramp to a shopping centre with a Cole’s super-market. Unfortunately in getting the dinghy in correct position on ramp to get the stores on board, I slipped off of the concrete ramp into deep water, got soaked, but what was worse, my phone was in my pocket and it didn’t like a soaking in salt water. Have rinsed it in fresh and am drying it; hope its OK, I’ve only had it a couple of weeks.

Adding a couple of photos taken on our walk up to Whitsunday Peak yesterday