Sunday, July 29, 2012

Sunday 15 July Nara Inlet, Hook Island



Well the reasonable weather didn’t last long.  We woke up to a very misty morning (see photos on previous blog). Then it gradually deteriorated into the usual totally overcast and raining day.  Didn’t pour just drizzled here and there.  The wind got up a bit and we wobbled around on our anchor.  Our anchor has held really well though.  So it was a good comfortable day with an occasional burst of wind.  

When I checked the ABC 7 day weather forecast for up here, it forecast rain until Wednesday but at about 23% possibility, so that has really improved from the 70% possibility which was forecast at one stage.

Ian and I have spent the day reading, knitting (just me!), washing (cockpit looks like a laundry), looking out at the other boats especially now that there are seven of us here.  Two motor cruisers and five monohulls.  They are all crowded up at the entrance.

Mr Billy Goat Gruff – a brown and black goat, well we think he was a billy, came prancing around the rocks near us and then disappeared, probably to somewhere warmer.   A lot of the islands up here have wild goats.  They were shooting them, to clear them out of St Bees when Ian was over on Scawfell Island.  Most of the islands are now National Parks, so they are trying to get rid of them.  Tough job.

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