Middle Percy Island
21 August 2017 | Middle Percy Island, Great Barrier Reef
Managed to sneak away from Pearl Bay early doors this morning, I was watching the ridge for a fair while last night to see if any flames were going to appear but the wind veered taking the smoke in another direction so all good.
Had a 60 mile run today in a 15knot South Easterly so i was fairly flying along, might have gotten a bit close to South Percy Island though as I got caught in the tidal races on the point for a while and had to fanny about a fair bit to get clear, not the first time i've done this either, need to start learning from previous daft errors! Still, it was a cracking day.
Now on Middle Percy Island, not the best name for an island I think but its a beautiful place all the same, there is even a few people living on here as caretakers, surviving on the goats the navy put on here way back when and growing all their own veggies, they even make their own honey which they sell at $30 a jar, Jesus? $30, they don't even have the decency to wear a mask when they are robbing you! (ha! can't help it, every penny is a prisoner after all).
Its an interesting place, the have an A Frame on the beach with a BBQ where everybody comes in of an evening for shits and giggles, you can also see the old Homestead of the bold Captain John Till of the Royal Navy who lived here back in the day with his two wives! Two wives!! he was obviously Doolally........