No pictures of Green Island (not a lot to see really) and we only stayed the one night. It's only a mile or so south of St Helena and we were sheltering from an Easterly. Got up early in the morning and went over to Manly to re-provision. There's no public jetty there however the fuel dock is open at 0800 and when we'd finished filling the guy let us stay in one of the berths for a couple of hours while we did the shopping. Also took the opportunity to fill the water.
Hmm, struggling with the idea of dates in the blog. Should I leave the date automatic which shows when I wrote it or should I manually change it back to the date when it occurred?
Anyway, we stayed the night of the 8th, went to Manly on the 9th and I'm writing this on the 18th.
Grr, just went and looked and it didn't make sense at all with the dates. I've now decided that I'll just have to keep it more up to date or live with the dates looking a bit weird.
Saturday 17 January 2015
Sunday 11 January 2015
St Helena Island - Moreton Bay
On the 6th Jan we left Dockside again with an outgoing tide. Much nicer as we had reached the mouth of the river in just over 2 hours (about an hour faster than a few days before). Turned right into a 15 - 20 knot head wind and decided that we'd only go as far as St Helena Island which is only about 3 miles. Anchored in the shelter of the island for a couple of nights. Brisbane dock in the distance makes the cranes look like giraffes.
On the 8th Jan we went on to the island to look around and discovered it used be a prison between 1865 and 1932. It's all national park and you can walk around some bits but needed to book a guided tour for other parts of the island. Unfortunately neither of us took a phone hence no photos and we couldn't even ring up and find out more details about the guided tours.
On the 8th Jan we went on to the island to look around and discovered it used be a prison between 1865 and 1932. It's all national park and you can walk around some bits but needed to book a guided tour for other parts of the island. Unfortunately neither of us took a phone hence no photos and we couldn't even ring up and find out more details about the guided tours.
The New Year
We flew back from Canberra on the 30th December with Glenn and Necia and spent new years eve at dockside. It was pretty warm so my xmas present from Belinda (water pistol) got a workout with the neighbours on the dock.
We passed on going to Southbank on new years eve and instead took the ferry over on new years day and had a swim and a beer over there with slightly less of a crowd.
On the 2nd left the dock and went into an 15 kt easterly across Moreton Bay over to the sand hills (between 'Big' Sand Hills and 'Little' Sand Hills) at the south end of Moreton Island. We stayed there a couple of nights and managed a short picnic on a sand bank during low tide. While we were there I used an ex foliating glove and cleaned off some of the brown Brisbane river slime. Pretty happy that we only have a couple of barnacles after 6 months.
On the 4th we sailed up to Tangalooma and I managed 7.5 kts of boat speed with one reef in the main and a full head sail running at right angles to the same 15 kts easterly. Happy with that too!
Only spent an hour or so at Tangalooma while we got some ice and then moved to the top end of Lucinda Bay just south of Tangalooma to stay for the night. Very protected from the easterly.
On the 5th we headed back in to the river and up to Dockside again so Glenn and Necia would be able to make their flight the next day.
We passed on going to Southbank on new years eve and instead took the ferry over on new years day and had a swim and a beer over there with slightly less of a crowd.
On the 2nd left the dock and went into an 15 kt easterly across Moreton Bay over to the sand hills (between 'Big' Sand Hills and 'Little' Sand Hills) at the south end of Moreton Island. We stayed there a couple of nights and managed a short picnic on a sand bank during low tide. While we were there I used an ex foliating glove and cleaned off some of the brown Brisbane river slime. Pretty happy that we only have a couple of barnacles after 6 months.
On the 4th we sailed up to Tangalooma and I managed 7.5 kts of boat speed with one reef in the main and a full head sail running at right angles to the same 15 kts easterly. Happy with that too!
Only spent an hour or so at Tangalooma while we got some ice and then moved to the top end of Lucinda Bay just south of Tangalooma to stay for the night. Very protected from the easterly.
On the 5th we headed back in to the river and up to Dockside again so Glenn and Necia would be able to make their flight the next day.
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