When googling the Whitsundays, I saw that it was on the 'top ten sailing sites in the world' so it would be foolish not to have stopped off here, albeit briefly. I was interested to see that some of the other nine must-sail places were the Greek Islands, French Polynesia, the Bay of Islands, the Galápagos Islands, and I forget the others but that's not bad. However Mark reminded me of a quote we saw on a sailing forum on the Internet.....'world cruising.......fixing your boat in exotic locations.' Oh, how we laughed. Actually, I don't think Mark was laughing, he may have been crying. However, any cruiser will know that doing stuff to the boat is an ongoing project, and here in this exotic place, we have been servicing the heads, repairing the sailbag, re-roping the trampoline. None of them biggies, but all of them important so we can keep our little Pegasus in tip top condition.
By the way, the Whitsundays were lovely. Turquoise waters, white sandy beaches. A bit like the Greek islands, French Polynesia, the Bay of Islands. Come to think of it, Plemont on a sunny day. The only difference was that when Mark and the kids wanted to have a dip in the sea for a quick snorkel, it took them three quarters of an hour to get wetsuits, stinger suits, mitts, hoods, socks, snorkel and mask on. Maybe not like Plemont on the deadly jellyfish front.
We had a beautiful spinnaker sail down Westhaven beach and were all anchored ready for a quiet night's rest before setting off again. Alas, the scant Internet we managed to get showed us that the northerly winds we enjoyed today were only going to be around for another 24 hours, so we raised the hook and set off again, southbound for as long as the wind will take us, or we run out of provisions. At the speed we are doing at the moment it might not take us very long.....7 knots, lovely jubbly. Fish catching speed, methinks. Excuse me whilst I get Lochy's lucky lure ready.