Been out of contact for a couple of days but here’s the scoop. We had a pleasant sail up to Gloucester Island (and Cape Gloucester) on Wednesday – while the place was nice we think people had oversold it to us and I t frankly did not live up to the hype. There are a two “Eco Resorts” there which is a euphemism for beach shacks. As far as a few beach shacks go with a bar they are OK but “resorts” they are not. We had a snack at one and a beer and on Thursday after a walk along the southern end of Gloucester Island we left for Butterfly Bay at the northern end Hook Island. Now that is a pretty spot. Bit of excitement on the way as the sail bag stitching had rotted and as we dropped the main it kept dropping right on to the deck. We were lucky I t was blowing 7 knots as we could do a temporary fix pretty easily. A job for the canvas guy in Mackay! We are now at Whitehaven and had a long walk along the beach in the evening and met a lass and her daughter – the daughter goes the same school our girls did and mother teaches there – small world. Today it blowing 20 knots form the SE so we will go over to Chalkies to see what that is like and if it is too windy we will go back up around the top of the island to Cid Harbour. For tomorrow, Sunday we start the treck south!