Day 1: Monday 11th July
Get up at 3am, drive down the road to airport. check at 4am :) Fly to Brisbane, saw Aunty Claire and she got me some new chucks!!! waited for Marty and Jake, missed next flight. Jake accidentally picked up wrong bag. go tthat sorted. stayed with aunty claire, was awesome!!!!
(that was from my tiredness of the long day that i could not be bothered writing properly)....
Day 2: Tuesday 12th
Bus, walk, train from Southbank to Airport, fly to Hamilton Island, dodgy landing. Ferry to Airlie beach, bus to Abel point marina but boat was in a different place (back at where we got on the bus...). because it was late we decided to eat and stay at club crocodile (mean hotel with pool and spa!!!). saw a bat in the tree whilst in the spa with jake, he got to see it fly away and he wrote here It was HUUGE!!.
Day 3: Wednesday 13th
Got up, walked to coles, bought food and carried it all back, taxied to marina and found boat, tender motor sucks!!! organised boat, had first gin and tonic at lunch., watched part of up with jake, and sorted music on boat and now have strobe lights cos of the bass.... drinking my first port! YUM!
Day 4: Thursday 14th
Went on the bus to Airlie beach to get supplies. Bought a hat and rum and a dress thing and a pirate flag. Happy herbs.... jake.... shop closed :). had lunch and then motoered out of Shute harbour and sailed to Blue Pearl Bay. I steered for a bit was awesome. Had a few rum and cokes, had tea and now drinking port! gooood niiiiight!!!
Day 5: Friday 15th
Slept in , Jake made pancakes. went for a swim and snorkel on the reef. Sailed to Butterfly Bay, took 4hours..... was cloudy and windy 20-25knots with big waves and was slightly scary but good to sail. would have been faster to motor around in teh calm bits. ate lunch, read with Marty falling asleep and then Jake falling alseep at my feet. now cook tea and chill... :)
Day 6: Saturday 16th
Left Butterfly Bay after a sleep in and a crap sleep with water dripping in my face from the port hole being open and teh cupboard door falling on my head everytime there was a big wave, so went on the big nice mattress. We motored around to Stonehaven and moored up and had lunch then sailed over to Langford island and went walkies. Now back at stonehaven for the night. gonna have drinkies wine and cheese..
(now there is four pages full of random drawings by me and jake, his amazing boats and sharks and lone divers and of course the good bat and bad bat )
Day 7: Sunday 17th
Woke up and started our sail to Bowen. left the clouds behind and endedup in sun!! we had a nice wind bwhind us for most/the whole way so that was super good! It was quite swelly when we first started and i was sailing/steering in my jammies.... again... After lunch we were cruising along and the water was a beautiful blue with hot shining sun! we saw a sea snake, a flying fish and two dolphins!! when we got into bowen , we managed to manouvre the boat into the marina, through a nail biting 1.1m deep channel. Jake steered us, well done to him :). Jake and I went onshore to have a shower. cold water.. and whilst i was in there a frog crawled up out of the drain and there was one in the toilet.... i did scream a lil...
we had tea at the yacht clud and found that we really have our sea legs now!
the stars last night were beautiful and sky so clear! there is an awesome friendly local boatie who looks a bit crazy! but he helped us so that was nice and i swear it was him, but in the darkness we heard tender putting along so i shone my torch on it and then turned it off and you hear him go "hoo, hoo". nmade us laugh. good old aussies! writing postcards and sleep.
I will leave you with the first week.... tomro or so i will put the rest of it up :) enjoy hahahah
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