29 August 2019 | Burnett River, Burnett Heads, Queensland, Australia.
23 August 2019 | Burnett River, Burnett Heads, Queensland, Australia.
01 August 2019 | Burnett River, Burnett Heads, Queensland, Australia.
29 July 2019 | Burnett River, Burnett Heads, Queensland, Australia.
25 July 2019 | Burnett River, Burnett Heads, Queensland, Australia.
11 July 2019 | Burnett River, Burnett Heads, Queensland, Australia.
17 June 2019 | Burnett River, Burnett Heads, Queensland, Australia.
06 June 2019 | Burnett River, Burnett Heads, Queensland, Australia.
30 May 2019 | Burnett River, Burnett Heads, Queensland, Australia.
23 May 2019 | Burnett River, Burnett Heads, Queensland, Australia.
19 May 2019 | Lady Musgrave Island, Queensland, Australia.
28 February 2019 | Burnett Heads, Queensland, Australia.
14 February 2019 | Burnett Heads, Queensland, Australia.
22 November 2018 | Burnett River, Burnett Heads, Queensland, Australia.
04 November 2018 | Burnett River, Burnett Heads, Queensland, Australia.
25 October 2018 | Burnett River, Burnett Heads, Queensland, Australia.
20 October 2018 | Burnett River, Burnett Heads, Queensland, Australia.
18 August 2018 | Burnett River, Burnett Heads, Queensland, Australia.
The Percy Hilton.
01 July 2017 | Middle Percy Island, Queensland, Australia
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Despite the swell, despite the breaking waves along the shore we launched Macenna and managed to make a beach landing in West Bay here on Middle Percy Island. This would be the first time we have gone ashore in nine days, the first time in a while we have had terra firmer under our feet, the first time we have stood on something that was not moving. The sand here is getting closer to the pure white silicas of Whitehaven Beach on Whitsunday Island that is only about one hundred nautical miles north from here. The glare from the sunlight reflecting of the white sand almost hurt one’s eyes.
Our goal was to leave our mark, our name just like hundreds if not thousands have done so before us. I can’t remember where but I had read about this place many years ago and the tradition lives on. This is the place where ships and their crews would leave a memento with the name of the vessel, the date that they visited and sometimes the names of the crew in the building at the head of the beach called the Percy Hilton for all to see. I’m not sure about this place but the tradition of marking a location started here in Australia when Mathew Flinders completed the first survey of this land we call home and the first inhabitants used to leave their marks wherever they went, so the tradition does live on.
We even managed to have a game of petanque (boulles) and did the short walk from one end of the beach to the other end and up into the small lagoon where there were two catamarans sitting high and dry, we have close to six metre tides here, so the cats can get away with entering the lagoon on the high tide and sitting on the bottom at low tide. At least they sit the right way up as we would look a bit silly on Annecam if we tried to do the same.
We had our first whale sightings for the season as a pod came within half a mile of where we were anchored, there were several full breaches as these magnificent creatures lept high out of the water.
Our plan is to start moving as soon as the weather settles down, we are hoping that it settles soon as we are more than ready for a clam anchorage, somewhere that does not have the almost constant rolling from the never-ending swell that wraps around the Island and enters the bay.
The photo is the entrance to the Percy Hilton.
“Life has two rules: Rule number 1; Never quit, rule number 2; Always remember rule number 1.”