Thursday, 14th: Departed Little Pioneer Bay at 0612 hrs, long before our little feathered friends were in the mood to serenade us. The exceptionally heavy mooring line proved a problem for the skin of my left hand but we made it to the Hinchinbrook Channel on the rising tide essential to the safe negotiation of its tricky entrance. First obstacle to avoid is the Lucinda sugar loading wharf extending 5.6 km out into the water at the southern entrance to the channel which is somewhat scary as it is very shallow and at times I saw the depth gauge showing only .8 under our keel.
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