We rested today, getting ready to move on to our next anchorage tomorrow. We think we will be heading off to Thomas Island, which is just a bit over 30 nm from us. Thus, tomorrow should be a short sail.

Thomas is part of the southern group of the Whitsundays. It will have taken us three weeks to get to the Whitsundays from Bundaberg but we have just dinged along, not being in any hurry. We are thinking that we will just spend a day or so at Thomas Island and then move on to just north of Whitsunday Island where the water is clear and the snorkeling is great! We so miss our daily swims.

We are trying to time our arrival for Friday or Saturday. My thinking is the Whitsundays are chalked full of charter boats and that those that have been there will be returning to their base marinas then and those that are starting will not be making out to where we want to be until after the weekend. That is my theory, at least. I sure hope the theory holds up since we want to get a good anchorage and use that as base for a while. We can then use our dinghy to go to many of the various reefs in the area where the diving is supposed to be good.

Australia has a dumb regulation that if you take your dinghy more than 2 nm from your boat, it has to be registered with the government. Yeah, right! Going two nm is like spitting into the ocean. You just do it and don't even think about it. If the water police (yes, they are really called that in this country) should stop us, I will just be a dumb foreign yachty and hope that will allow me to avoid the fine. We shall see