G'day All, After a flying fast trip we have arrived at Kalbarri! just short of the infamous Zuytdorp (spell check) Cliffs. I've been past here many thymes, but only recently have they dredged the river mouth and installed marker poles, making it safe for yachts.
Cameron, Kim and Myself left Perth Saturday Pm and basically sailed / motored rite through to Geraldton as a refueling stop. We've used 190 liters from Fremantle to Geraldton (not 2 bad), then after a quick "pow wow" we decided to make a break, in front of the weather and head up to Kalbarri to sit out the NW blow. Only 20 knots but itz coming from the NW so rite on our nose as we tackle "The Cliffs"
While entering Kalbarri waz easy leaving waz 5 minutes of sheer terror. (see foto).
The afore mentioned wind haz failed to arrive but itz still nice to stop for a day and replenish lost sleep. and get the first mudcrab of the trip.
Update thyme we have made our way into Canarvon purely to fill up the tanks both fuel and water. We managed a gr8 run past steep point .Using 260 litres this thyme. Cam managed a couple of NW snapper for dinner. After some more sleep we've made our way North to the top end of Dirk Hartog Island where we stopped on Levillian Shoal for a night of fun targeting pink snapper. Here we had more luck with plenty of good sized pinks coming aboard. We only kept a couple so most were released to swim again.
We also scored a 4,5 kg baldchin groper on ultra-lite tackle This waz a PB for Cameron.
