On Sunday, February 26 at 8:45am we slipped the mooring lines at Scarborough Marina and slowly motored across Moreton bay. The weather was still quite rough and there was at least a metre of chop and 20 knots of wind as we headed south. It was nice to be out on the water again and we watched other yachts taking advantage of the strong winds. We decided to test our new rocna anchor in a calm bay off Dunwich on Stradbroke Island. The anchor worked better than expected but we had a mishap with our anchor windlass while getting used to the new set-up. Luckily it didn't prevent us from continuing our journey. We were up early the next morning to continue our passage down the Canipa Passage. We enjoyed the scenery as we wound our way through the shallow passage between sand banks and islands. The biggest challenge was clearing the overhead power cables with our mast. The cables are marked on the chart as being set to a height of 20 meters which left a few meters margin for us. You can see from the photo the power lines sag in the middle so we wisely motored to the left of the bank. After clearing the power lines we still had a few narrow areas to navigate through. The small bird in the photo came down to warn us it was getting shallow just before we nudged the bottom. Luckily we steered off into deeper water without any problems. As we approached Tipplers Passage the scenery changed dramatically and we wished that we could have spent time anchored near the Jumpinpin bar. Unfortunately we had to get to the Broadwater so we could cross the Gold Coast Seaway early the next morning.
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