I can,t say for sure what actually kept us in Bundaberg, yet today we started our journey North, to where the good weather is and the apparently incredible Whitsunday Islands are. We are sailing inside the Great Barrier Reef which has some advantages as well as some downsides. The advantages are the waters are protected by the reef, relatively shallow, and clear rnough to see your anchor in 30 feet of water. The downside is much of the navigation is by eyeball, which means you need to be anchored for the night well before sundown. That would be OK, except the days are really short; sunrise this morning was 06:33, sunset was 17:18, which the math suggests is a bit under 11 hours. The end result of this is it will take us a good amount of time to get to the Whitsunday Islands. However if today was any example one culd not ask for a better start. Not that I am fond of getting up when it is still dark, i.e. 05:00 yet it turned out to be a great morning. The day started wi th a bit of rain, but ended up sunny and warm(er). The picture that I hope is above this post is a Google Earth view of Lady Musgrave Reef, which is typical of many reefs and atols. The red boat shaped thing in the middle of the lagoon is our GPS position. What I think is fasinating about this view is that you can see the coral reef surrounding the litle island and the very large lagoon. The dark swath near the top right is the only channell in or out of the reef. The other things you can see are the "boomies" (Australian for coral heads just below the surface) and the reef itself. The lighter colored part is generally exposed or very close to the surface at low tide, the brownish surroundinbg areas are coral reef which in this case grow from about 200 feet below the surface. Pretty cool stuff and there will be ..........More later