Showing posts with label beach. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beach. Show all posts
Sunday, 9 April 2017
Beach Bumming on Brampton Island
14-15 November 2016
After an extended period of friendly northerly winds a change to south easters was finally approaching necessitating a move from our home for the last two nights on the southern side of Goldsmith Island. We left reasonably early to take advantage of the last of the following breezes and had a very relaxed ten mile sail across to one of our favourite anchorages near the currently closed resort on Brampton Island. We have sheltered from strong southerly systems here a number of times and have always felt very secure. We also enjoy the island’s glorious beaches and national park walks.
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| We sailed across from Goldsmith Island to Brampton Island ahead of a south easterly change. |
A pod of dolphins welcomed us as we dropped anchor near the remnants of the old resort jetty. Within minutes we were also visited by a large turtle that seemed curious enough to come quite close to the boat. We have often seen dugong here as well.
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| Goldsmith Island to Brampton Island – 9.7 Nautical Miles – 2 Hours 27 Minutes Average Speed 4.0 Knots – Max Speed 6.4 Knots. |
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| The Brampton Island anchorage has always worked well for us when the south easterlies blow. |
After lunch we took the dinghy around the Pelican Island, the small islet laying off the old resort, and went into the beach for John, our guest crew member, to have a look at what we described as an ‘Eerie ghost town in Paradise’ when we first anchored here and saw the state of what was once a vibrant tropical resort. The resort itself is off limits from the high water mark with many signs everywhere prohibiting entry.
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| Karen and John wadding ashore after we anchored the dinghy well out from the beach at Brampton's resort. |
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| Carlisle Passage virtually dries at low tide. |
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| You can walk from Brampton to Carlisle Island when the water recedes. |
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| John checking out the pool and main resort building. |
A few caretakers rotate time on the island to keep an eye on things and are happy to have respectful cruisers visit as long as they observe the limits. One of these guys, Steve, often brings his catamaran over from Mackay and beaches it by the pool. He has even set up some beach lounges and umbrellas for cruisers to use and will happily chat for hours. When we arrived there was no sign of anyone but we still limited ourselves to wandering the beaches and extensive sand banks that appear as the tide drops. Carlisle Passage between Brampton and Carlisle Islands is very much miss named as it is far from anything like a passage for anything but extremely shallow draught boats on anything other than a very high tide. It virtually dries on the low.
With a much publicised full ‘Supermoon’ scheduled to appear soon after sunset, we underestimated just how extremely low this day’s tide would be. Despite anchoring our dinghy far out from the beach it was left very high and dry. Even with wheels fitted we really didn’t feel like hauling it a quarter of a mile over the sand so our stay on the beach was extended quite a while until the water returned.
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| Our dinghy ended up well and truly beached due to the 0.0m low tide |
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| Karen amused herself wandering the sand banks and writing in the sand while we waited for the tide to come in. |
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| Carlisle Island reflected in a tidal pool |
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| That's a little too far to drag the dinghy. |
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| It was late in the afternoon by the time we were able to head back to the boat. |
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| Our Dreamtime at Brampton Island awaiting our return for sundowners. |
Sundowners that evening was amongst the most spectacular we have ever experienced on Our Dreamtime as the setting sun appeared determined to put on a show to out shine the much vaunted supermoon. In our opinion it was no contest with old Sol winning by a knockout in the first round. We celebrated another great day in paradise with a fantastic rib roast cooked on the BBQ and some very fine wine. John was REALLY enjoying the cruising life by now,
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| The sun's spectacular light show lasted hours in it's various forms and easily beat the so called 'Super Moon' for appeal |
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| The super moon's eventual appearance over Carlisle Island was anti-climatic after our brilliant sunset. |
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| Great food, fine wine and fantastic company are all ingredients for a brilliant night afloat. |
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| Karen cools off on at the resort beach in the very high tide. |
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| Yes, Brampton Island provides a pretty good image of a tropical paradise. |
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| Not much beach left with the king tide reaching its peak. |
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| We had a strenuous day on the beach while John did the national park walk to the island's summit. |
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| The king tide provided a much needed change of water for the old resort beach pool. |
John eventually appeared around the point well ready for a cooling swim after his climb to the top of the island. The views of the Cumberland Islands from the lookouts are truly remarkable and well worth the effort. The national park walks are reasonably well maintained and provide great outlooks over all sides of the island as you wind your way to the peak.
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| One of John's photos from Brampton Island's summit. |
This was our fourth stop at Brampton on Our Dreamtime and we enjoyed it just as much as all the previous visits. We had planned to stay an extra day but we had a crew change scheduled for Friday in Mackay with John leaving us and our eight year old grandson, Kristian, flying in from Canberra for the trip the rest of the way down the coast with us to Brisbane. The forecast showed Wednesday would be a less crappy day than Thursday for the beat southward so we would be upping anchor in the early hours and heading for the Mackay Marina for a couple of days.
Below is the evolution of a sunset. Goodnight from Brampton Island.
Below is the evolution of a sunset. Goodnight from Brampton Island.
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Tuesday, 4 April 2017
Kicking back at San Telmo Around Mallorca Beach by Beach
August 25-27 - 2012
A very rare thing happened on Alcheringaon the morning of August 25th. We had a sleep in and didn’t get underway till about 11.00 am. Because of the wind direction we elected to give the anchorages on Dragonera Island a miss and headed to San Telmo instead. It would be revisiting old ground for us but Marc hadn’t been there and we knew it should be well protected from the north easterlies that were forecast.
Conditions were a little light but we were able to sail all the way. We started with a nice downwind reach out to sea then square run wing on wing with the cruising chute. The wind got very light and fluky for quite a while but we were still making acceptable speed so we stuck with the set up. The autopilot got a rest as we hand steered all the way. It was actually great fun helming the boat to get the most out of every little bit of breeze. We didn’t actually expect to make it all the way to the strait between Mallorca and Dragonera Island without tacking back out to sea but as we approached the coastal cliffs the wind veered in our favour and we sailed directly into the passage. It also got squeezed so strengthened quickly from under 10 knots right up to near 20 knots. This had us right on the limit of our cruising chute and had us flying along.
We covered the 21.1 nautical mile trip to San Telmo with an average speed of 4.5 knots and reached 8 knots during the sleigh ride through the strait. It really was a very enjoyable sail.
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| Asymetrical chute out to starboard, mainsail to port and three happy meerkats afloat in the middle. |
We anchored close in to the beach in what is the most protected corner of the bay but unfortunately after having spent five very peaceful nights in this anchorage while Marc was away, this time a big swell rolled into the bay making the boat roll uncomfortably most of the night. Rob was also up for a couple of hours securing everything on deck and keeping an eye on a huge electrical storm hovering just out to sea. Luckily it bypassed us.
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| Alcheringa at anchor off San Telmo |
Marc stayed onboard all day on Sunday reading while we went ashore for a while, strolled around the very pleasant town and picked up some really nice fresh baked baguettes. With some swell still rolling around the point, launching the dingy back off the beach was a bit challenging. We tried to time our run between waves but sure enough the sea wasn’t going to co-operate and we got well and truly drenched as a small breaker rolled over the bow. With no thought for self preservation, Karen heroically managed to save the bread though.
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| San Telmo - Mallorca |
On Monday we spent another lazy day in San Telmo. Rob got some more blogging done as he’s been trying hard to catch up. We’ve been so busy actually doing things he hasn’t been able to find the time to write about doing those things and all of a sudden we found the blog nearly three months behind. He was keen to finish the story of our passage from Gibraltar to England on Curious. It had happened so long ago back in early June that he actually thought it would be fairly short. However once we started to go through the photos of the trip and recall all the great things that happened along the way it ended up longest chapter yet at 6,500 words with over 70 photos.
We all did make a trip ashore for a local lunch and for Marc to see the town though because we were going to be moving on again in the morning.
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Tuesday, 14 March 2017
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