Double
Island is a great anchorage, if you like the smell of jet fuel, it is right
under the flight path to Cairns airport.
A sweet downwind sail to Snapper Island with the promise of same for dinner,
we did manage to catch a reef shark instead.
Alas, after
4 attempts to anchor at Snapper, (the only good spot seems to be a small vessel mooring, doh!) where it drops from 5 m to 13 m and rocky
bottom, we had to give up and sail into the sou’easter to Low Isles.
Just before
our second tack we saw whales frolicking and realised they were only about a
mile away. After lots of leaping, tail
slapping and cavorting the flipper waving began and the calf leapt in delight.
One more
tack and we were near Low Isles and luckily picked up a mooring near Aqua
Safari, with the usual welcome by the huge batfish.
Mobs of Pied Imperial Pigeons
were arriving to roost and the brown boobies and terns were jostling for
roosting spots on the tourist boats and moorings.
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