19 AUGUST 2005 ORPHEUS ISLAND

We are away at last. Just the 2 of us on a slow gunkhole north, hoping for no health dramas and fine weather. So far this season we have had much more rain and strong wind warnings than last winter and many cruisers are thoroughly disillusioned. Maybe the good weather will start from now? Illywhacker is currently anchored for the night as we wait for the high tide to cross the bar at Lucinda and enter the inside waters of Hinchinbrook Passage. Or maybe we'll head up the outside to Dunk Island ... ah the joy of not making up one's mind!