After a good night’s sleep anchored in front of the Wild Dolphin Resort at Tangalooma on Moreton Island we weighed anchor and started our journey north once again. The breeze was light so it was a day of motor sailing up past Mooloolaba, on to Noosa Head where we anchored for the night in Laguna Bay. We almost had the pleasure of being the catch of the day as we entered the bay we had to alter course to dodge the shark nets that run along the eastern end of the bay. We found a way to get in behind the nets to drop anchor, these nets only have small orange buoys and lack a top mark or light to warn vessels of their location. It was after dark when we spotted another yacht heading straight for our location and we had to call them via the VHF to warn them and direct them around the hazard.
The very next morning we set our course north once again and we sailed to Double Island Point where we anchored under the beautifully coloured cliffs in Wide Bay to have lunch. We still had to negotiate our way across the notorious Wide Bay Bar on the south end of Fraser Island and the best time to do this is in the last two hours of the run-in tide. We hit the new leads just before 1600 as the top of the tide was at 1700 this would assure us the smoothest water over the bar, our crossing was all going well until I noticed a lot of breaking water in front of us as we turned on the second lead line. As discretion is always the better part of valour we turned back to a safe location on the first lead and called the Tin Can Bay Coast Guard to verify the correct marks and I had made the mistake of not double checking the marks I had put in the chart plotter, with the correction in and an escort by another yacht we had a good run for the rest of the crossing.
Here we are anchored in Pelican Bay, just around the corner from Inskip Channel that separates Fraser Island from mainland Australia. It is good to be anchored in a nice quiet spot out of the ocean swell, we are both looking forward to a good night’s sleep. We do notice the temperature slowly rising, you could say we are heading north for the warmth.
The picture is the beautiful coloured sand cliffs above Rainbow Beach that protect the southern side of Wide Bay, this was a good spot to stop for lunch.
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