Pancake turned on the technicolour sunset for us last night starting with a golden hew.
Finishing up with a rose red sky.
The next morning, much to the delight of The Plums, was a 9 am departure, but they were ready to leave just gone 0830. I think my early starts are starting to grow on them. A 19 mile motor sail around Rodd's Peninsular had us dropping anchor in 2.5 metres of water just off of Turkey Beach.
We headed ashore after lunch to the towns floating pontoon alongside the boat ramp. OK to tie up dinghies on the off side.
A local told us about the shop a short walk up the hill (Where have I heard this before), but I cannot complain - at the end of this walk I was greeted with a Cold beer and a hot meat pie, how good is that?
The shop is open 7 days a week.
It sells fuel, gas swap-a-bottles, alcohol, fresh bread, milk and other assorted groceries, soft drinks and much to Audra and Kathy's delight, ice-creams.
On the walk back to the water we passed some locals taking advantage of a bit of shade.
The floating dock makes it very easy to get ashore here given it's 4 metre tidal range. It is just such a pleasure to step out of the dinghy rather than be dragging it up and down beaches. The remnants of Cyclone Debbie even affected the town of Turkey beach, it broke the floating walkway in two pieces.
The local council arrived in force, fenced off the whole area as dangerous and erected a mobile electric sign warning of the dangers. Apparently, this has subsequently been hit by lightning and reverted to a previous rolling display that pictured below does seem a bit unconnected to a Jetty.
So the local fishing community took down some of the fencing, got a couple of lengths of anchor chain, some shackles and turnbuckles and strapped the pontoon together themselves. I am positive the cost of the temporary fencing and signage is way more than the cost to actually repair the damage.
Clear Horizons and More R&R at anchor off Turkey Beach.