Join us this week as we do an overnight sail out to beautiful Broadhurst Reef. It's paradise - and we lap it up with loads of water based adventures! Join ou...

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last time you were with us we took you

on a tour of Townsville's old quarantine

station and its surrounding battlements

area

we had some fun at the marina curry

night then went coconut hunting with our

friends Troy and Pascal

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we have no idea how good this is this is

such a treat after having just fruit all

day had some vegetables at night good

neighbor in our Anchorage just over

there who has the biggest soul

we went coconut hunting yesterday and

and we gave them a coconut on the way

back to the boat and she made up this

absolutely divine coconut ice cream she

took some coconut from the coconut

itself some coconut meat and mixing it

with some coconut cream and some

blueberries and some lemon rind and then

she did some coconut shavings and she

put it in the fridge and made me coconut

ice cream yeah baby it's so good it was

our final day before taking off on some

reef adventures with the free-range crew

so after prepping serían for a night

sale we spent the afternoon taking in

the sights of Magnetic Island

we netted with our favorite kaki

cockatoos bid farewell to yogi koala

come on in good morning all yeah enjoy

the sunset snack on the foreshore with

the flock of sea ghosts after midnight

we pointed Sirians bow out of the bay in

the direction of Broadhurst room about

60 nautical miles to the southeast of

our location well it's about 3 o'clock

in the morning and I'm just checking in

with you it's bit of a bumpy ride we're

heading in a sort of easterly direction

and we're sort of punching into it

really we're just trying to get out to

fort history

and hope people get out there about sort

of o'clock in the morning so it'll be a

good time to arrive with the Sun coming

up in the sky to get under the roof

anchor Anchorage yeah we have right

quite comfortably it's about 16 to 18

knots of breeze and we're pulling about

five five and a half a little bit slow

actually for what we normally do but

c'est la vie and yeah I probably had

about a couple of hours we'll hit the

shipping channel and need to pay a bit

more attention a lot about shipping

around at the moment

all is quiet all is well

it's

so much there

the bitter care and I was just watching

of this all ahead of us and it was a

ship and he was showing his port light

to us which meant that he was going to

cross in front of us and that's exactly

what he did

but I can't show you because it's

completely

so it's about four o'clock in the

morning and yep still track the long

nicely

good morning son welcome to a new day

beautiful

yeah

anyway the whole time that watch I do

that's

right

anyone on file now thank you

good morning

it is a beautiful day the Sun is up over

the horizon

and shining bringing us off their walk

just come on watch me Gaza will let me

sleep a couple of hours longer which is

superb of him really nice and they were

just popped out of the shipping lane

we saw about four ships last night and

ones just sort of over behind us that

way which is where we like them to be

behind

so I've got about 80 miles to go to a

destination and the words dropped out of

it which we expected so hopefully it's

going to be a glorious calm day and no

sign of morale they're probably sitting

waiting at the Anchorage to get in or

they might even be anchored up by now so

we shall see and it was gorgeous there

was so much phosphorescence in the water

last night just streaming along the side

of the hill I tried to get some footage

of it for you but I couldn't because the

camera just didn't work that way yes so

we're still running hit to end and we'll

probably be another three hours or so to

get to Brod in history and then go and

explore no exciting gorgeous day

another gorgeous day

yeah so this is where we're going this

is a big Broadhurst reef and little

Broadhurst and this is us just about

here as you can see our track is a

little bit low and we can't come up at

the moment cuz we're hard on it but it's

really it's inconsequential and we're

going to hang her up there see what we

find

hopefully there will be some interesting

snorkeling along here and this edge of

the reef gorgeous

beautiful day beautiful day

if you can imagine the phosphorescence

was just filling up all this water so

there was all this blue light and all

the water along the side of the vessel

last night was gorgeous kind of like

snowflakes

except glowing

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as the wind came round on the bow I

tightened up the mane hoping to keep us

powering through the waves

there's my honey

sleep on the LAN city dreaming of all

the gorgeous things is going to see in

the water later on

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good old cotton is having a hard time

holding course however I let him go and

enjoyed my fresh Apple and the gorgeous

ocean view

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oh bugger after that note you haven't

done a toughie no one allows for anyway

it's a pretty good not really nice

full it's a bit to look at for a little

walk

pretty good drummer huh

not as fast forward ladies on

when always still silence that's pretty

heavy

without phosphorescence did you see the

phosphorescence I did yeah you know it

was that was pretty good okay good of

that cow huh yeah excellent

any war an amp pretty good

their numbers her house

why as Darrin went down for another

sleep I kept an eye on the fishing

vessel that was doing circle work across

our pal

good morning look where we are we are

surrounded by blue water no land in

sight isn't it fabulous Troy and Pascal

on marul came in a few hours after us

and anchored up about half a nautical

mile away in a nice little sandy spot

near a cut away in the reef spying the

crystal-clear waters of the reef

surrounding us we were excited to get

into the water and check it out though

we're actually in a big lagoon at the

moment and we're sort of parked in

between a few bommies and about 20

meters of water oh yeah it's good it's

it's so good to be out at a reef

Anchorage's again beautiful well yeah I

thought I talked to you about how we

choose to come out to these Anchorage's

just in case some of you want to know so

what we do is we generally will will

make runs out when the weather's going

to suit us so we came out here on about

15 to 20 knots southeast us are so is so

is what it was and it was had already

passed through so we're basically

traveling out on the back of it and then

we anticipate to arrive when the winds

are starting to back off down to the 10

to 15 s and then we're looking for the

next day to be quite glassy which it is

today it's beautiful and yeah so we aim

to get out to the reef when the Sun is

high in the sky so around about sort of

between 10:00 and 2:00 in the afternoon

and so that means that we can see when

we're coming in to these sort of

Anchorage's you need to be able to see

through the water and the Sun being high

in the sky will let you do that just so

that we can make our way around bommies

etc

and find a good Anchorage so that's what

we do and we've got perfect glass out

conditions here for another couple of

days and we'll enjoy it here and maybe

gone to another Anchorage and then we

will run back to shelter again when the

wind gets up so that's our little game

plan thought I'd share it with you

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this part of the brief was teaming with

smaller reef fish it seemed to make a

great work read and a good feeding

ground for the likes of the ever

colorful parrotfish

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it was pretty awesome on the inner reef

there was no current it was protected

and it was great to see such a variety

of brightly colored coral and sea grass

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much fly less in the world we've had big

rains here and match flies have gone

mental in the last couple of days our

foreign Kevin is full I just made about

fifty out of the hatch okay so we're

gonna sign off for now thank you so much

again have a great week and we shall see

you next time Joe

so he goes