Year One
Date: 13/9/2008 15:00
Weather: Beautiful one day, perfect the next.
Location: Scawfell Island
Author: Peter

Yesterday we sadly left Newry and set sail for Scawfell Island. Shortly after leaving, whilst filling out the log book I called out to Kylie to keep her eye out for whales. Inside the boat I heard the loudest whale song I have ever heard and thought they must be close. Much to our delight a small pod with two calves entertained us for the next half hour. We had a few more encounters like this over the course of the rest of the day.

Back at the Newry's, our last two days were spent exploring either on foot or in the duck with Kylie "i don't like walking back along the same path" taking us on another of her bouldering excursions as we made our way around the exterior of Outer Newry Island. These excursions seem to be nice and we certainly see some interesting things but they are very tiring and hard on her knees. Whilst trolling behind the duck Kylie managed to catch a small cod and mackerel both of which we put back. We even spent a lazy morning just relaxing on our own private beach on Rabbit Island. Wow.





A catamaran from Coffs Harbour. This is our favourite cat design, best looking cat we've seen.

Our sail across yesterday saw us catch an Australian Spotted Mackerel, which our guide listed as good eating, so guess what everybody? We had fish for dinner last night. It was edible!!! There was even enough uncooked fish left for at least another two dinners, so stay tuned for more fish experiments when it comes back out of the freezer.

We have just spent the morning relaxing, and I have been for a snorkel, although my sinuses are still stuffed and I cannot dive under the water. To me Scawfell is the most beautiful island we have visited in the whitsunday's and as such is a great spot to say farewell to the region.

As soon as the winds turn in our favour we will be headed 60nm SSE to the Percy's.

And by the way mum, I even managed to read Matthew Reilly's "Ice Station" in just over twenty four hours. Not bad for me. I must be slowly speeding up.

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