Gale warning

Friday, 25 July

At last we were ready to continue north but the weather had other ideas. All was set for a 6 am departure but a gale warning was then issued for the region so we turned the alarm clock off and stayed put. For the next two days a wild storm ensued with hammering rain and wind gusts up to 37 kts, and that was in the marina! We heard that outside it was more like 65 kts. The 24^th was sunny and warm so we spent it on the boardwalk constructed along the shoreline between Airlie Beach and Cannonvale and waited for the seas to calm down.