1770 to pancake paradise



 After arriving in the friendliest campground so far on our trip we departed the 1770 campground with a random idea about where we might end up for the day. The paddle to Bustard head was done in oily conditions with almost no wind. A large turtle popped his head up to say hi half way across, he was surprised to see us. Lots of sea birds carried out low level passes, the rounding of the headland was characteristically bumpy, the view that greeted us saw Marty giggle like a small child in a lolly shop. Pancake creek is straight out of a movie set – you know one of those romantic movies with lots of young beautiful people….fortunately for us we have this paradise to ourselves and our bearded, bedraggled selves certainly won’t make movie stars, but we expect them to turn up at any moment.

Pancake creek has a coral reef at its entrance and is teaming with fish, one of which joined us for dinner this evening. Yum.

Bob my boat is still taking on water, we now think I may have a small hole in the hull I will be working on that this evening and tomorrow – loved the glad wrap solution though, and thanks for the mandarins and lemons – so good.

There are so many simple things that you miss on a trip like this, fresh fruit (it is awesome)/ hot water – again awesome, electricity, chairs – especially chairs with a back, when I get home I am going to sit in my favourite chair an will myself to merge with it for a few hours, oh I miss chairs! 

We have poor coverage here so have only been able to post a few photos, have heaps more to come when we get back to civilisation. A huge thanks to all of our new friends at 1770, travel safe guys. DT