2nd to 5th June, Sesia & Gulf of Carpentaria.
We stayed in Seisia all day on the 2nd to fuel up, fill our water tanks & Sylvia stocked up on the stores. Sesia is a nice little town, a bit spread out, and is the port for most of the Toores Strait Islands, also a well managed town, ( no drunks around the town). As we cross the gulf, we start with a light breeze but over night the breeze got up a bit and is a nice 15 Kn on our port, stern qtr, so we are 3/4 running at about 7 Kn. I will have to finish this later, the boat is rolling too much, and the computer buttons are moving all over the place...

The photos here are of Phil catching what he thought was a barramundi, he had the barra bit right but it turned out to be a barracuda, so it went back into the water, he did better the next time round landing a nice yellow fin Tuna, and Sylvie cooked up a yummy mornay with it.

The Gulf seas are something else , never seen such confused water, we picked up some strong winds on the way, so we put the hammer down, and were pulling into Gove by 11 am on Thursday, only 2&1/4 days to cross. Gove Yacht Club looks a bit down at the heels. We are staying here for two days. We went into Nhulunbuy the town for Gove, nice place (a bit like Tom Price). On Saturday morning we will be off to the Wessel Islands and through the Hole in the Wall, on our way to Darwin, we will be out of contact for about 2 weeks

When we were sharing the boat passage with the large ship, a few days back, North of Lizard Island, Phil and Barry were watching the ship intently while Sylvia was off watch and in the Starboard cabin, unaware that a ship was right behind us, when the Captain of the ship sounded a blast from his claxon to advise he was turning to starboard, the noise shook “Spindrift” and Sylvia nearly put her head through the cabin roof.



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