Whitsundays with Daniel

Daniel, our 24 yo son, joined us for a few days. We were much more active with Daniel around. We had more shore time, did walks, snorkelled, clambered over rocks and dinghied over to little islands and bays.

We picked him up at the Hamilton Island fuel dock and headed out for Whitehaven. Just after we left the bay an alarm sounded from the engine room so we turned round back to Hamilton, got a berth and called up a marine engineer. He dropped by and quickly diagnosed a problem with the refrigeration, fine as long as we didn't use the motor compressor to power it and used the generator or inverter instead. Anyway we could fix it at Airlie later. We spent the night at the Hamilton Marina anyway and sailed over to Whitehaven the next morning.

While Daniel was here he uploaded the latest software on our Raymarine nav system, brought with him my new MacAir and loaded it up with all necessary software and had us reorganise our internet usage to a more economical arrangement.

Over the next three days we visited Whitehaven, Cateran Bay at Border Island, Black and Langford Islands, Blue Pearl Bay, Ackhurst Island and Henning Island.

Daniel, driving the dinghy

Chance Bay, from Whitehaven walking track

At Chance Bay

Cateran Bay, Border Island

We took a goat track up to the ridge at Cateran Bay

A horizontal pine tree

Found a plastic cat

Walking on Langford Island

Langford Island spit, high tide

Coral mounds at Langford.  They tinkle like wind chimes.

We could go only so far with Daniel.
He made his way round the rocks at Langford and we walked back along the beach.

Jeremy's birthday lunch, so nice to have Daniel with us.

Happy 61st

Ackhurst Island

Beautiful colours and patterns of a dried lobster

The wake when Daniel drove the dinghy

We loved having Daniel with us.