Wind 10 – 15 knts partly sunny 15 nm

Rode with Morgan along the boardwalk towards Cannonvale for breakfast at a lovely cafe named The Fat Frog. The cafe overlooks the beach and the bay looking eastwards towards Abell Point and the food is interesting and tasty.

It is better than the usual Eggs Benedict with salmon etc that seems to be all the go elsewhere.

I had a stack with roast capsicum, avocado, chorizo, bacon and grilled haloumi on spinach topped with a hollandaise sauce and John had coconut porridge with almonds, bananas and yogurt. He said it was delicious. The cafe was very dog friendly going to the extent of having three meals at the bottom of the menu for our K9 pals.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We departed Abell Point at 11:00 and had a fantastic sail doing 8 – 9 knots in 15- 18 knots of breeze. Mays Bay on the western side of Hook Island was our destination. John was pretty happy as we out sailed the other yachts heading our way. We dropped anchor in 7 mts of water at half tide as we didn’t want to anchor near any coral. Last time we anchored here in Crusader we went in too close and had to re anchor. There was a slight roll at anchor but not much to worry about.

A dinghy ride to reconnoiter with the depth sounder for coral and likely fishing spots showed no coral, it must be too deep or further over.

Bernie’s Beach looked too rocky for pulling the dinghy up so we motored further north to a pretty little beach with a sandy landing.

John gave the cast net a few throws but could only produce 5 small fish to keep for bait.

Morgan had a good time regardless.

With four stubbies, bait and fishing gear John and Morgan headed off to Lion Point for a fish. No luck there so they tried further north, still no luck so returned home without breakfast. He put the lines out off the back of O’vive and caught two small reef sharks and two small trevally which he returned to their watery home in the hope of catching an emperor for breaky.

No such luck looks like bacon and eggs.