Weather warm Winds 5- 10knts W

Woke up to a beautiful calm morning, the tide was still running out so we waiting until it turned at 8 am so we could go with it up Canaipa passage, Bacon and eggs and pototo for breaky topped the morning off for us adults, only bacon for Morgan.

Breakfast visitor

We headed up past Jumpinpin (the entrance between North and South Stradbroke Island) through the shallow Canaipa passage. Navigating between the green and red channel markers we thought we had it perfect until thud we were hard aground. The port hull hit first then we stopped ,we wern’t going anywhere until the tide rose further. Luckily it was only sand so hopefully only the keels touched bottom. It seems the sandbars have moved since our chart was updated.

We waited about 20 minutes until we started floating enough that we could start the engines and move further along the side of Russell Island up the passage.

Heading towards the power lines at the top end of the island we passed plenty of boats anchored along the side of Russell out of the channel in deeper holes.

The chart says the height of the power lines is 20 metres. Our mast is 21.5 m. John tells me the 20 metres is at the sag so we have plenty of room if we go under them at the eastern end where they rise up to the tower. I was still worried as we passed under them however it looked like we had at least 5 metres to spare. Very hard to tell from underneath.

Heading on a course of 315° we hoisted the main and jib and sailed towards the bottom of Bribie Island where my sisters were anchored.

It was a beautiful day on Moreton Bay. We had both sails up however very little wind , so the motors were turned on to assist us to get to our destination before dark.

We lazed, lunched and I knitted as we passed the Port of Brisbane and crossed the main shipping channel the freighters follow into the Brisbane River.

My selfie skills need refining.

Port of Brisbane

Brisbane Skyline to our west

We dropped anchor at 4:30 at the bottom of Bribie Island just north of the jetty and headed over in the dinghy to Eva Louise for happy hour with Sandra and Doug and the Nyeki crew , Deb and Wayne.