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| feed me! |
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| beautiful in flight, not on land |
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| Small church, Laurieton |
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| Laurieton Services League club house |
We
left Camden Haven 8am on a half flooding tide to give us good depth
for our 2.1m draft and most favourable conditions to cross the bar at
the entrance. When we visited the Marine Rescue office they advised
the calmest conditions going either way over the bar was on a rising
tide. After we had cleared the breakwaters we looked back and
thought 'was that it?' A far better reflection than 'we were lucky
there'.
Out
into the forecast south 20 to 30 knots decreasing....never decreased
and stayed closer to 30 knots all day which would have been fine
except we had 2 knots of current going the other way! Our speed
through the water was reduced from 8 knots to 5 or 6 which indicated
a midnight arrival at Coffs Harbour. We've been in there before and
it's a wide, easy entrance but when there's a high headland offering
a protected overnight anchorage why not drop the hook and have an
easy night's sleep to continue in the morning? We went into Trial
Bay and found flat water, wind down to a whisper from the south and
good holding in 5m.
After
a peaceful night the final 30 miles into Coffs was begun at dawn and
this time we had the current with us, arrived at high tide and in
time for lunch.
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