Mackay - Let Me Go!

Mackay Marina - what a hold! Tiburon is having hard time slipping her lines here. A great marina with restaurants and bars a plenty within walkiing distance. We have been giving the Thai and Tappas bar, as well as the pub, a real workover. Just deserts after two months on the move.

Re walking distance it is a "billy and packed lunch" from our pen to the shore - one round trip is worth 2000 steps on the pedometer so it's not too difficult to make up the 10,000 steps for the day, albeit overidden by the schooner of new on each trip to re-hydrate. Need to get out of here or Mark will put back on the weight he has lost!

The odd collier awaiting a lod off Hay Point. We lost count and the photo cannot possibly do justice to the dozens of juggernauts at anchor across the horizon. I suspect we could retire on a days worth of demurage. As we sailed through this group (they were all around us) we can admit to a touch of nervouseness! These things make a big hole in the water!

Approaching the anchorage at Curlew Island - every panorama is different and unique. The beah at Curlew was long and clean and the volcanic monliths impressive and stretched the imagination. Karen is the one who wins at imagining objects represented by rocks - we have seen lions and dogs, bears and whales in the rocks.