Waiting, waiting, waiting. We are stuck in Mackay Marina waiting for a weather window. The wind that is causing the dreadful fires in Rockhampton is keeping us in our pen here in Mackay Marina. There are worse places to be stuck however – it is a good spot. There is a little ghetto of us here waiting for the weather to break – there will be a mass exodus when it does turn (eventually!!) as about 6 boats are heading south. We have spent some time with these people who are also waiting – they all seem to be from Tin Can Bay. Great group of people and it has been fun discussing strategies and plans with them over drinks on various boats or dinners at the Yacht Club or restaurants that line the foreshore of the Marina . Obviously the boat is back in the water. The Shipyard did an OK job and the lass who runs it was pretty efficient. We had some trouble with the “tradies”, but the boss was on to it and now we are ready to go. We had flown Mark, our son in law up to show him a bit of the area as we sailed south but with 30 knots from the south poor Mark was stuck too and he flew back yesterday. On his way to the airport he dropped us off and we wandered about town and even saw a movie in the middle of the day – how decadent. Chris has her hair cut in Mackay (see picture of the new look!).