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poor leftovers of a stranded small whale   The wind and seas settled over night, and it was high tide in the morning, so launching from the reef platform was no problem.   It was an easy paddle with easy to moderate quartering winds until about 2pm. I reached Geraldton already around lunchtime, so there […]

my campsite on the middle lane of the “local highway”     The forecast I got in for the next day said nice 10-15 kn south westerly’s all day, something which sounded like a relief after that front and quite manageable for that 50 km lap to Geraldton.   The would be a bit of […]

the “Lucky Bay”, just about missed, where is the reef gap?     the gap in the reef of Lucky Bay, out of which I was eventually launching this morning     One forecast for today was 15-20kn south westerly, which wouldn’t be very pleasant, another said 10-15kn westerly, which may be pleasantly pushing!   […]

my landing spot south of this reef     The forecast for today was 20-25 kn southerlies, and it was like that! If not more…big whitecaps allover the sea, and my landing spot didn’t really looked inviting to get going again!   I went for a longer morning walk to the “real” Lucky Bay, to […]

(picture by Mac Holt)   I felt ready to go again – six days break were more than enough! I was planning on two recovery days from the overnight stint along the cliffs, and I reckon I missed out at least two good weather days. But my body said “no” , and it was quite […]