After a fantastic and busy week at Lizard Island a weather window (less than 25 knots on the nose) opened up so, with a pre-dawn start, we followed the procession of boats leaving including our new friends on Gypsy Lee. During that first day they had several encounters with large ships but gladly survived and we all enjoyed a musical dinner that night at Hope Island. Hope is truly a magical place for us. More fast and this time rough passage up the cost found us after several days at Cardwell where we found ourselves in the Friday night lawn bowls fun. Then dinner with our dear friends on Kieara C who are heading to Darwin next season. Then we found Gypsy Lee again in Hinchinbrook Channel were we enjoyed breakfast on Gypsy and dinner on Erica. Last night we spent at Cape Bowling Green which is appropriate after our game of lawn bowls but this Cape is no more than a very long and flat sand spit. It is truly sad saying goodbye to so many new and old friends as we fast track down the coast. As we write this we are an hour from Gloucester Island which we left 3 months earlier on our odyssey to Lizard Island.
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