CRUISING WEEKEND – 22,23/10/11
With an excellent forecast for a change, the weekend planned at Bribie for the 22nd. and 23rd. October looked inviting, and was. The morning was a tad more breezy than anticipated but had not kicked up the bay at all, just a bit of south easterly spray over the windows as we crossed the bay. It soon dropped off and by lunchtime it was magnificent.
Clive on “Lucky Lady” led off on the Friday up to White Patch and was soon followed by Quinnie , Lorraine
Gary Trost in the houseboat “Slack Attack” made it halfway across the pond, but was getting a tad wet, so altered course and overnighted in the Caboolture River
Scott and Roseanne in “Miss Toorbul” came out of the creek on the tide Saturday evening and overnighted off the VMR just north of the bridge, and Mal and Bev in “Chappie” dropped their pick near Bongaree – ‘tis hard to get a 40’ yacht under the Bribie Bridge without some serious modifications. They headed back on the Sunday morning, but hopefully will join up with us again.
Peter and Bev in “Austral Star” preceded my arrival in “Sunshine” at Bongaree as some of the others came down from areas north of the bridge, and whilst they took the option of remaining aboard they were with us in presence and spirit.
Once ashore we were then joined by Sharon and Barry Felschow and kids who had driven up as “Sunseeker” is apparently in a current state of temporary flux. Nigel and Tressa Edwards also made the detour to join with us on their way back from Caboolture, and whilst their visit may have only been fleeting, it appears that we may well be joined on a more regular basis by “Aqua Vita”, business and sporadic world travel notwithstanding.
We were also joined by Mark Calam and Janice who ventured over from the club in the 17’ tinny.
After a few lies and a few laughs the barbie was fired and most of the interest and comment was then centred on the size of Clive’s steak and the whereabouts of both the head and tail of the cow that he heated up and was seen to demolish for his luncheon repast. As he was seen to mention when others went near the barbie, and with apologies to the honourable Crocodile Mick Dundee - you call that a steak……..this is a steak!
Again, following further lies and laughs we all packed up and headed back to our various Scarborough moorings, leaving Scott and Roseanne to await the tide to get back up Elimbah Creek.
According to the feedback it was an extremely enjoyable weekend/day with all happy with the venue, and the option of being able to make it either a weekend or day trip. Due to work commitments, I have been only getting over for the day, but hopefully in the future I can re-organise my time better and get over later on the Saturday next time.
All of which leads in well to the next weekend/day trip planned to be the final one prior to Christmas and will be the 19th and 20th November, hope to see you all there.
David Mason-Cox
