We left the North White Cliffs and the top of the Great Sandy Straits for Bundaberg. We were surrounded by small sand islands all surrounded by calm warm waters and beautiful white sandy beaches. What a paradise! We passed a few boaters and they waved.
Following the channel markers across almost perfectly flat seas we set course for Bundaberg and a pleasant 10-15 knots of wind giving a fast passage. Seas were calm for most of the trip across the back of Fraser Island and we soaked it all in, trying to forget those days when everyone was sick. We kept our luck and saw 3 dolphins as we approached Bundaberg, these all appeared to be the more normal size and colour dolphins, unfortunately however, Daddy got all excited when less than 40min away from Bundaberg, he yelled, "look, I think that was a Dugong!". We furled the jib, and motored back along our course looking for the shape Daddy had seen, Nicholas then saw the turtle; it was very still and sadly clearly no longer with us.
It was an easy entrance into Bundaberg Port for a tie up in the late afternoon. We walked up to the thriving metropolis of Burnet Heads, eaten by mosquitos, and found the pub, IGA store and we were able to restock our supplies and have a relaxing dinner in the pub. Thankfully they had a free shuttle bus for us back to the yacht for the night... and more of the friendly mozzies!
Drats, should have bought some thing at IGA! Lights out .....buzzzzzzzzzz