Although our web visitors may be visiting the individual Blogs, we thought this extract from Paul and Harriet's Blog (Anahi) sums up the great cruising being enjoyed by our Blue Water Ralliers at the present time. We are also delighted that they are now safely underway after their technical delay at Mackay.:

The Whitsunday area is a particularly beautiful and unspoilt part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in the Queensland tropics. They are actually two drowned mountain ranges cut off from the mainland by past geologic events.

Today we sailed past Brampton, through the middle of Lindeman and Shaw between Goldsmith and Linne Islands, a tiny little passage where the seas were confused and the current at its strongest in our favour, to settle for the night at the most beautiful anchorage in a cove of Thomas Island (next to Dead Dog Island). This is surprisingly the first time we have actually sailed alone, stopped in an anchorage alone (as opposed to attaching to a buoy) and been completely alone………not another single yacht or person in sight…..and it is wondrous! We have watched the tide dropping away to reveal the Island’s reef, the birds are singing joyously in the trees at the end of their day and the white sandy beach looks pristine.