Whitsundays Days 3

Day 3

A magnificent morning with the sun hitting some yachts beautifully. We left early to go through Solway Passage, looking towards the stunning red tinted cliffs of Lindeman Island (we think). Then we saw 3 whales – 2 adults and a baby, being very active. Our GPS stopped working and Russ thought it was probably due to a cable coming loose – they’d had trouble with that happening when we did our briefing. Sam said that it could take quite a while for it to reset but after half an hour we were concerned, so we rang Charter Yachts Australia. Fortunately it came back after we’d spoken to them which was a big relief. Then we headed up to Border Island to stay at Cateran Bay for the night. Russ had the lures out and while we were worrying about the GPS, a fish must had hooked on and run all his line out and busted if off the reel – Russ was very upset about losing the line and lure. By this time it was 15-20 knots and quite a lot of swell. We were doing about 6 knots. Unfortunately Cateran Bay was quite windy so we moved on towards Butterfly Bay, being as the prediction was that the wind would continue around 15-20 knots for the rest of the day. We were lucky to get to Butterfly Bay in good time because within about 15 minutes some other cats and yachts turned up but all the moorings were taken and anchoring isn’t allowed so they had to find somewhere else that was protected from the SE wind. The snorkelling was great on the west of the bay and we took a quick tour of the western side of the bay, even though we were both freezing.

When Russ got a bucket of sea water, this tiny fish was init. He thought it might be a baby swordfish

Breakfast

Not sure if this is Lindeman Island, or Pentecost or another island, but it was stunning with its red tinged rock faces, as we motored through the Solway Passage

Winds got up to 25 knots and there was a fairly big swell too. The Cat was very smooth inspite of these conditions