We wanted to sail from Monkey Mia to Turtle Bay on the North
end of Dirk Hartog Island to visit inscription point, but according to the
weather report there would be 18 knot easterlies and there is only good shelter
there from southerlies, so we delayed our departure plans.
We may even decide
to go straight from here to Carnarvon which would be disappointing.
We spent a relaxing morning on the foreshore after the daily
sausage factory had taken all the tourists for the dolphin feeding and then the
fake sail on the two tourist catamarans that parade up and down the beach.
The flies at Monkey Mia at the moment are some of the worst
I have ever uncounted. Everyone is wearing the compulsory $10 fly net and I
even saw a dog wearing one too. They are
bad enough to drive you insane.
Offshore there are few fly’s, but at night our lights
attract moths in the millions and the boat is full of them. During the day
swallows sit on the boat and crap out all the fly’s and moths they have eaten
and yesterday when we returned to the boat it was covered in crows and quite a
bit of crow shit.
Monkey Mia is a nice relaxing beautiful place, but now that
we have our fuel card we just want to move further north where the water is
warm and where we can go snorkeling all day. Here the water is cold and there
is no reef to snorkel on and the fly’s are driving us nuts.
Track Sirocco’s
progress
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