It's 1/2 hr before sundown and we are doing a 170 nm run north bound along the Queensland coast. A bit of dejavu with our sistership Mystery Ship a mile ahead of us.
Oso was in great shape when returned from Utah on April 3 and it didn't take much to get her ready for our next adventures. She had recently had a professional polishing and looked like new. The usual tuning up of all the systems, changing of filters, and provisioning and we were ready to go.
We left Brisbane on Saturday morning and retraced our tracks from last November. A stop Saturday night in Mooloolaba, Sunday and Monday nights in the Sandy Straights, and we are now watching the sun set for our first overnight passage since our trip to Australia from New Caledonia 5 months ago.
Over the next two weeks we will be working our way toward the Whitsunday Islands and the Great Barrier Reef where we plan on spending 2-3 months. Most hops will be relatively short day trips, so this overnight run in mild conditions, is a special time.
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