0637hrs: Departed Gladstone anchorage heading out following the shipping channel. Motoring into a 5 to 10kt south easterly headwind.
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| Leaving Gladstone Harbour |
1200hrs: Passing Pancake Creek near Bustard Headland. This creek is worth exploring on our way back up the coast. It has an entrance that is navigable in any tide.
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| Pancake Creek entrance |
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| Bustard Headland |
1430hrs: Arrived at 1770 and anchored outside the bar waiting for the tide to come in to be able to cross the bar.
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| 17709 Headland |
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| Waiting for the tide |
1800hrs: Crossed the bar following a commercial power cat. The anchorages are very tight and concern about swinging into other boats forced us to go farther up stream. We touched bottom again, but this time couldn't motor off. Time to take out a kedging anchor in the dinghy and winched ourselves off. Temporally dropped the kedging anchor rope with a lifebuoy as a float and motored up beside a small yacht and dropped the anchor. We then retrieved the kedging anchor and re deployed it to keep us off the sand bank and to stop us swinging into other boats.
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