While we were eating the Swan,an St Ayles skiff rowed past into the gloom,after a while they came back past us chattering away while rowing at a decent pace.I think this was the women's crew.Some of them rowed down to Catamaran and then up to the Wooden Boat Festival and back recently,over a hundred miles I think.The enthusiastic movement to build them and the social interaction they provide is good to see,one member of the Circumnavigation told me he has a small grant to get them going in Geelong.
Not much visibility this morning.
The Swan out for an early morning row,quite a team by all accounts.
A couta boat came out of the gloom.
Upanchored after most boats had left,I was hoping the weather would pickup a bit.No such luck the wind moderated so we could put the dinghy up a bit easier but the visibility was still only one quarter of a mile.No 17 knots today.
We worked our way out of the bay passing a few yachts doing about five knots,the radar comes in handy on days like this.
Down past Eggs and Bacon Bay,noticed the push to rename it has died a natural death,what were they thinking!
Round past Arch Rock and into the Channel where things were a lot better,how can I entertain the crew for a few hours.
Motored over to the area off Simpsons Point where I had been told the Flathead are often caught.
I did not have to ask Ron and Ralph twice if they would like a fish,yes was the answer.
I have to do one more blog so we pulled up and they began to fish,what a master stroke,the good sized flats were biting well kept them busy for a couple of hours.Got a nice haul to take home.
Arrived at Quarantine about five thirty,just in time to go ashore,there is a nice place there with a floating pontoon to tie your dinghy up and some bench seats around a fire pit,Some of the Queenslanders had been ashore earlier and scrounged some wood and lit the fire,also set up a couple of BBQ's.
The fleet dwindled to a bit over 12 boats but a good crowd of likeminded people,as usual you meet someone new even on the last night,Bruce is an expert at getting stories out of them,one skipper told him his crew were two people who were interested in doing the cruise from Queensland so he took them away for a week end to see how they got on,he must have been quite pleased to find the are an "item " now he thinks.
Another Irish fellow was cooking on the BBQ,turns out he is a retired chef,was running the hospitality car on a train in Ireland during the troubles when the IRA tipped a truckload of bricks off a bridge on top of the train killing the drivers,lucky I was at the rear of the train and the roof was a bit stronger in his carriage,flying glass cut of a fellows ear in the bar where he was at the time.
The fire was welcome as we sat around and chatted until near dark,the prudent ones sneaking off before,we hung around and Ralph going out to get some buckets to put the fire out,Alison Stump from Rosebud was concerned the fire was going to keep burning.
We were last away but still about 8.30 onto the boat for coffee before bed.
The venue for the last night,a bit slack missed the people,forgot to take the camera ashore.
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