John and I woke up to the same swelly and windy conditions as yesterday. Ovive was still twisting on her mooring bouy . The weather was a mix of rain, overcast skies then sun. We hadn’t decided what we were doing but by mid morning we’d had enough and pulled of the buoy to head for somewhere calmer.

Deb , Wayne and Geoff had gone ashore for a walk to the top of the island and had left their dinghy up the northern end of the beach. Unfortunately the tide was on its way down exposing the fringing coral. Arriving back from their rather strenuous walk they had no way to get into deeper water and return to their cats until the tide came back in. Oh well they went to the bar and waited for a few hours replenishing themselves with lemon sqaushes.

Departing Fitzroy,( thank goodness). Cape Grafton shrouded in cloud.

We sailed Ovive the short trip to Mission Bay and anchored as close to the shore as the tidal range would let us. We were still a long way out as its a very shallow bay. Still it was calmer than Fitzroy even though we couldnt see the bottom as the water was murky and stirred up.

We climbed into the dinghy and undertook a reconnaissance looking for a deeper sheltered spot to anchor in the event the others turned up.

We couldnt get to shore as it was too shallow for the dinghy and I didnt fancy walking with Morgan through murky waters in crocodile country.

The others decided to stay at Fitzroy as it was late by the time they got back to their boats. We had a much better night than the night before although the anchor alarm went off at 5:30 as we had swung round in the opposite direction, with the tide and wind and I must have set the alarm too short. I’ll set it for 150′ next time.