Thursday, 7 October 2010
We are now in Southport after a pleasant trip down through the channels and islands at the south end of Moreton Bay. We started off on a rising tide, so that we could get the current behind us, and also, more importantly, we could get to Jacobs Wells about high tide. This is the shallowest part and the channel is only about 2 meters at high and impassable at low. We got through there OK, very gingerly. VMR Jacobs Wells have their radio base right by the channel, and we were called up by them to let us know that we were straying from the channel. Another confusing part is the “W”, so called because it zig zags. There were so many channel markers that it became quite confusing, but we got through OK. I did go aground once during the trip when I strayed from the channel, but with a bit of reverse and help from the rising tide we were soon afloat and back in the channel.
We are now in Runaway Bay Marina, small but nice, and we might be here for a few days as there is a strong wind warning as a southerly front moves through. Hopefully it will subside over the weekend.
Am including 3 photos taken today. One is of a large ferry overtaking us in the “W” and very close in the narrow channel. The next is the buoys, also in the “W” and the last is of an osprey nest on top of a port marker. Rather than disturb it they have put in another marker next to the nest
We are now in Southport after a pleasant trip down through the channels and islands at the south end of Moreton Bay. We started off on a rising tide, so that we could get the current behind us, and also, more importantly, we could get to Jacobs Wells about high tide. This is the shallowest part and the channel is only about 2 meters at high and impassable at low. We got through there OK, very gingerly. VMR Jacobs Wells have their radio base right by the channel, and we were called up by them to let us know that we were straying from the channel. Another confusing part is the “W”, so called because it zig zags. There were so many channel markers that it became quite confusing, but we got through OK. I did go aground once during the trip when I strayed from the channel, but with a bit of reverse and help from the rising tide we were soon afloat and back in the channel.
We are now in Runaway Bay Marina, small but nice, and we might be here for a few days as there is a strong wind warning as a southerly front moves through. Hopefully it will subside over the weekend.
Am including 3 photos taken today. One is of a large ferry overtaking us in the “W” and very close in the narrow channel. The next is the buoys, also in the “W” and the last is of an osprey nest on top of a port marker. Rather than disturb it they have put in another marker next to the nest
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