The Adventures of Captain Ray Penson
Sailing Yacht Truce
Of course, the reality of cruising an area or coast is often different from the perceptions. This was very true of my cruise inside the Barrier Reef. I started the voyage in Gladstone, Queensland and finished the Barrier Reef section In Siasea, just around Cape York in the Gulf of Carpentaria, amazingly still in Queensland – Australia is a big place.
I have sailed the seven seas. But, never before have I sailed on the Arafura Sea or crossed the Gulf of Carpentaria. Now I have. My stop in Seisia was excellent apart from a couple of days when the wind blew too hard for me to get ashore in the little rubber duck dinghy, at least not without a soaking or risk of being blown to Timbuctu.
Truce is once again the only boat in the anchorage and its quite a remote and dark place at night. The second night was too much, I decided to get around Cape York in the morning no matter what the weather was doing.
The Adventures of Captain Ray Penson 