Wind   SE  10 – 15  Sunny slightly overcast  Low tide 16:30                      12 nm

What a calm night, no movement at all, the water was like glass when we awoke.

 

John and I checked the crab pots and who could guess ? no crabs in Hinchinbrook channel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stump cooked  bacon , eggs and beans for breaky then we up anchored and motored 4 nm to Gayundah creek to try for crags up there. Motoring up the mangrove lined creek looked very promising with swirls from fish or so we hoped, not crocs. Last time we were up this creek and crocodile was patrolling friends crab pots.

We dropped the pots off the back of Ovive then headed for the entrance as there were too many sandflies up the creek.

After anchoring back in the main channel  the boys and Morgan went fishing returning with no large fish tales and no crabs. The only thinh biting were the sandflies so it was time to leave Hinchinbrook although its magnificent backdrop would be missed.

We hauled up the sails and motored sailed up to Hecate point at the north weat tip of the island. From there to Gould island the wind was on the nose so we dropped the sails and motored across to Hayman pt on the tip of Gould where we anchored in 2 metres of water. As there had been no wind lately it was quite calm.

On arrival we dinghied ashore armed with oyster knives and containers .

Amongst the sandflies and occasional mozzie we gathered about 8 dozen oysters from the rocks on the low tide mark. Morgan chased fish or maybe nothing in the shallows and wore herself out.

Back on Ovive John prepared about a third of the oysters for the oyster Kilpatrick  however we are running out of Foxs special Worcestershire sauce and its a long way to Corryong to get more. The oysters were delicious followed by silverside and the remainder of the dumplings. Steve fished in between courses and only managed a small banded trumpeter.