Filtered by category "OZ5:Cairns-Seisia"

13.29 143.43.  Morris Island.  55km 7 am to 4:30 pm. Lumpy sea with ugly strong quartering winds. Very warm water around the reefs. It was quite windy all night, and next morning I had to pack my boat in a sandstorm…almost time to call that day off! But it was not too bad…but a day […]

13.57 143.50 Stainer Island 55 km 7to16,5 no cyclone but a helicopter, and found PC’s teethmark in the tree where he clinged himself to the island 🙂 Useful rope for Paul??? (Note from Chris Cunningham: Paul Caffyn made camp on Stainer Island on April 6, 1982. The high winds of Cyclone Dominic kept him pinned […]

14.09 144.15 Flinders Island. 55km 7am  to 4:30 pm. Can you believe I lost my camera sliding simply off the  extension cable? Enjoying  freshwater here! (Note from Chris Cunningham: Freya has a back-up camera, so she will still be able to take photos. Beyond Cairns (April 4) Freya has come to a less populated stretch […]

14.20 144.38 West Barrow Island. 65km 6:30 am to 5:00 pm.  Most beautiful granite boulder island. I got hit hard on the stern by something but didn’t get a glimpse of whatever it was… (SORRY, NO PICTURES, MY CAMERA SUNK AT CAPE MELVILLE :-((  ) I got scared to death this morning, as after 5 km leaving […]

14.44 145.04.  West Petherbridge Island.  55km 7am to 5pm.  I got hit hard by a flying fish. I did not even see him 🙂 (SORRY, NO PICTURES, MY CAMERA SUNK AT CAPE MELVILLE :-(( ) Heading first to Cape Flattery, there was another sign of civilisation – an obviously abandoned sand mining jetty was sticking out […]

15.05 145.22 Low Wooded Island. 75km, 6:30 am to 5:30 pm. It was squally weather all day, interesting to watch! (SORRY, NO PICTURES, MY CAMERA SUNK AT CAPE MELVILLE :-((  ) I paddled past Cooktown, the last real “town” of the Cape York Peninsula. My course goes directly from headland to headland, from island to […]

15.43 145.27 East Hope Island. 60km from 6:30am to 4:00pm.  A tiny island to walk around in 10 minutes (SORRY, NO PICTURES, MY CAMERA SUNK AT CAPE MELVILLE :-((  ) Right after launching, I paddled around the sandy spit of Snapper Island to find a happy party of fishermen from a small boat pulled up the […]

16.17 145.29 Snapper Island 70 km After a quiet launch seas went quite a bit up today. At least entertaining…I was surprised seeing a seasnake floating on top of the rough waves. I guessed they prefer the millpond conditions to sun themselves like the day befor I came into Cairns. Low Isles Reef looked very […]