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| Meet BIG RED, our spinnaker |
Our focus has been so solidly on getting around the SW Capes (Naturaliste and Leeuwin) and then The Great Australian Bight that most of our passage planning energy has terminated at Port Lincoln.
We held tight at Snug Cove despite feeling like we were dangling out into the channel. The small and gentle remnants of Southern Ocean swells that escaped through Thorny Passage were mere whimpers of their former selves. They rocked us gently in our bunk for a blissful sleep.
For the first time in 2 months we were eager for the arrival of an easterly breeze to take us to Port Lincoln about 20nm to the NE. 'Big Red' was hoisted for the job. What a relief not to have that motor on. Since we were one of 2 boats heading in the same direction it was a race of sorts..... or rather a race to keep up with a 50' cat that was getting wind from it's most favoured quarter!
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| The Bloke admiring his sail trim |
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| The light at Cape Donington next to Cape Colbert leading into Port Lincoln |
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| Captured Tuna kept in giant netted pens - fish farms are everywhere |
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| A member of the largest fishing fleet in the Southern Hemisphere heads in |
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