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We had the tracks to ourselves, which was great. The only down side of a lack of walkers from the resort is that in places the tracks are becoming quite overgrown and hard to follow. Such a shame that the infrastructure is going to waste, as the island has a lot to offer.
One of the highlights of the walk was entering a damp, wooded gully filled with thousands of butterflies of two different species. They flitted about |
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Right: Masala at anchor, Leekes Beach, Great Keppel Island |
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of water and sinking, my day pack with camera inside (fortunately packed in a dry bag) starting to float around in the bottom.
“Where’s all the water coming from,” I yelled. Quickly we dragged the dinghy back to shore but couldn’t get it out of the water because the water inside weighed too much. I grabbed my pack out of the slops. Oops! The skipper forgot to put the bungs back in. |
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When we go off walking, leaving the dinghy on the beach, I remove both bungs as a security measure. I put two really large bung holes in the aluminium dinghy to cope with tropical downpours. When it is hanging from the davits on the back of Masala, the last thing you want is for it to fill up with rain water during a storm. The weight of a dinghy-load of water is astounding – we know several people whose davits have collapsed when their dinghy bung was inadvertently blocked, thus my decision to put in two, and make them really big. |
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While Annacol headed north, friends Ross and Marge on the pretty Tartan 34 Black & Tan arrived, anchoring close by. During lunch on Masala they accepted our invitation to come with us next day on a walk to the highest point on the island, 174m Mt Wyndham. |
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Above: Black & Tan at Leekes Beach |
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Right: Leanne, Marge & Ross on the track to Mt Wyndham |