ST21 'Skinnydip' build, and boating adventures, Noosa, Australia

[Fuzz]

Yes Lee that was a huge help! Most times I have to search for the spot. And if the names do not match Google Earth I really have to hunt around. But I sure enjoy seeing the places and following along with the adventure

I do have a question, are the prevailing winds pretty consistent? I ask because it looks like if the wind backs some of those places could get pretty sporty.

You guys are having warm weather sailing there and I woke up to falling snow this morning

[BarraMan]

Goldsmith Island

Off Mackay


Brampton Is in the 2nd pic also has an airstrip. We flew in there many years ago for a couple of days R&R - but that another story!
Fuzz, I am sure Michael will answer your wind question better than I can, but from my perspective the prevailing wind is SE.

[glossieblack]

are the prevailing winds pretty consistent? I ask because it looks like if the wind backs some of those places could get pretty sporty.

Along the section of the Queensland coastline we are currently cruising, the wind usually blows from the SE from Feb/March to Aug/Sept, and you can choose time tested SE anchorages with confidence. Very rarely will a northerly arriving in the middle of the night put you on a lee shore. Around this time of year, and through to Feb/March, northerlies become more frequent, often dominant, and you take a risk overnighting in the SE anchorages. However going into northerly anchorages is a calculated gamble, because SE changes have a nasty habit of putting you on a lee shore without warning. You don't sleep as securely in a northern anchorage as a southern one, and you should always have a middle-of-the-night escape route to a safer SE anchorage prepared and have fewer glasses of red before you turn in.

Today its been blowing 15 too 25 knots from the south east, so had a boisterous 2 hour NE sleigh-ride sail to Shaw Island's Burning Point anchorage, a wonderfully secure and scenic SE anchorage. Over 20 boats sheltering here. Lat 20.30.00 S, Lng 129.03.21 E.

[glossieblack]

Lovely 20 nautical mile beam reach sail today from last night's Burning Point anchorage to tonight's Whitsunday Island's Cid Harbour anchorage. Lat 20.15.39 S, Lng 148.56.61 E.

[BarraMan]

Now that is nice, but ......................... don't go for a swim!

[glossieblack]

Now that is nice, but ......................... don't go for a swim!

Ha. For our international colleagues, Cid Harbour is nowhere near a safe place to swim, because for deadly sharks, it's an attractive place to cruise and feed too.

Over the recent decade, this reality has been swamped by tourism-glam do-it-all-in-paradise promo.

End result, people being eaten alive.

Cid Harbour is still a stunning and secure anchorage, so long as Lee suggests, you can resist going for a swim.

[Jaysen]

What I’m hearing is that I should fish off the boat, clean my catch in the boat, then jump in and splash around a lot.

Did I get that right?

[glossieblack]

What I’m hearing is that I should fish off the boat, clean my catch in the boat, then jump in and splash around a lot. Did I get that right?

Novel hypothesis. Test it, and hopefully the liberated bride will send us the findings.

[cape man]

The findings of the hypothesis, or the pieces of Jaysen that aren't swallowed?

Good looking Anchorage other than the toothy neighbors.

[BarraMan]

We have an increasing population of inshore bull sharks. I don’t know why - there are a number of theories.
20 yrs ago we didn’t see them in the Hinchinbrook Channel, but they are there now. It’s commonplace to lose hooked fish to them - so much so that people have stopped targeting big barra because they are the breeding females. Most barra fishers release barra over 80 cm (30 something inches), and its heartbreaking to boat the front half only of a metre plus (>40") barra!

Bull sharks are nuts! Crazy killing machines!

Most of the fatal shark attacks in CID Harbour are believed to have been bull sharks.