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| Checking out the ocean wildlife. |
Monday morning saw us cast off our lines and sail up to Cid Harbour. After doing such long legs on the way up, you forget that the distances between anchorages in the Whitsundays are all relatively short. In less than an hour and a half we were safely anchored at Sawmill Bay along with several other yachts. Our paths had already crossed with several of them and it was nice to catch up and exchange news.
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| The New Crew |
Sawmill Beach has a National Parks toilet and picnic facility that looks relatively new. There are also some memorials for CAPT Cook in recognition of his exploration of the region. Two walking tracks start at Sawmill Beach - an easy one to Dugong Beach and a more challenging one to Whitsunday Peak. We did the the easy one as a group and the kids loved wandering through the forest.
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| Bush Stone Curlew |
After setting ourselves up on one of the picnic tables we suddenly noticed that there was a bush stone curlew standing in the scrub a few feet from us. He seemed entirely unconcerned about our presence.
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| Ben opening coconut |
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| Tamara getting ready for Sundowners |
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| Ben reading to Tamara. |
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| Tamara & Hayley |
The following day Cath and I scored the baby sitting duties while Ben and Nikki headed off to do the peak (along with a boat load of Hamo Island staff on their day off). We had a great time exploring the beach and collecting 'treasures' while Ben & Nikki were rewarded with some outstanding views from the peak.
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| Yet another tropical sunset. |
The day was finished off by the Ben & Nikki clan having a swim off the back of the boat.
Needless to say we then introduced them to the obligatory 'Sundowners'.
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