Thursday 15 July For those of you interested you can skip Indian Head Creek, it’s a bit of a hole, depths all over the place and muddy water. We arrived here this afternoon having spent last night and this morning in the beautiful Pearl Bay, we should have stayed there but then we’d never have know what a hole Indian Head was so I guess we have learnt something. It is a very safe anchorage and I just caught a nice little shark, make that two sharks and I saw a dugong but still…..We sailed (motored) to Freshwater Bay but that didn’t look too inviting so we kept going to Pearl Bay – good choice ! It is a very pretty place, clean water, nice trees, sandy beaches (one small impediment – see picture!! So no walking). Two other cats were anchored up there one of whom we met last year at Chalkies in the Whitsundays. Fun to catch up with him (on his own at his missus is helping with the arrival of grandchild number TEN). The other couple are new to cats but not cruising. I am sure we will catch up with them again. Pearl was great fun, I’ve never seen so many garfish – they were everywhere and being chased by something a lot bigger. The water surface would boil regularly as they jumped for their lives. There were so many in fact that I caught 4 off the back of the boat with a light and a hand net – good bait I hope. We also caught a flounder which was breakfast today. The walk along the beach was pleasant too with lots of blue and black butterflies flying about, the sun was shining – that’s what we are talking about!