Wind  SE 10 – 15  Sunny                      HT 1.15   35nm

Woke up to a breezy morning so it looked like the forecast wind of 15 – 20 may eventuate giving us a good sail. Unfortunately the wind died down not long after we left to 15knts at the most so we alternatively sailed and motored throughout the day.

The day was uneventful with a sideways swell making for a sloppy movement of the boat. We had the rods out and the only hope of a fish came when John realised he had had a fish on for a while and it bent his swivel and took off with his lure. It must have been quite a large fish which made him spend the rest of the ay lamenting the lost fish.

Saw a couple of whales in the distance that looked like they were heading south and a tanker of our starboard bow heading for Brisbane.

Arrived at Cape Bowling Green at 4:30 and anchored in 1.7 metres of water just behind the first low set of sand dunes. Bowling green is not a cape as you would expect, its a long flat peninsula of sand at juts out for about 30kms and looks very inhospitable with only a few strands of dune grass topping the slightly raised parts. It makes a great shelter when anchoring in behind it if the wind doesn’t change.

We went ashore and Morgan and I went for a long walk while John cast unsuccessfully for fish and then trolled with no luck in either task. The beach was covered with debris and shells but nothing good to find as people on quad bikes had combed the beach earlier. Morgan had fun though charging along the flat sand and in the water.

John put a line out while I cooked steak and vegies for dinner. The steak had been cryovaked and emitted a strange smell almost like ammonia, it wasn’t off but even after it was cooked put us off our meal a little. I ‘ll be very cautious when I go to that butcher in Cannonvale again.

The fishing was poor John only caught a grinner and two small sharks, one of them a hammer head which looked very funny with his eyes on the end of his hammer.