Foggy bay morning

Dugongs, dolphins and turtles

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Eight friends, eight kayaks, beautiful weather and a long weekend on Moreton Bay. Add to that a large amount of animal wildlife including dugongs, dolphins, stingrays, sea eagles, black swans and heaps of turtles and you have a recipe for a great weekend.

Kayaks sharing a quite moment at Clarkes Pt

at the top of Lamb Island.

"OK, who pulled the plug on the water?"

You take the diesel, and we'll take the paddle,

and you'll get to climate change before us.

A kayak rainbow on Gumnut Beach

30 boats on the Bay

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There were over 30 sea kayaks out on Moreton Bay for a combined QSKC and Claytons club paddles. Great weather, socialising and paddling were the order of the day.

Although I didn't see it, a very large dugong was following me for a short distance, surfacing just behind me before diving under the waves. Luckily dugongs are vegetarians.

Tropical island?

Not quite (and its not Bribie either)

Bribie dolphins

A great day at Bribie Island paddling around the southern end from the passage to the surf side and return. A small pod of dolphins welcomed us back into Pumicestone Passage coming quite close to our flotilla.

King Island

Another beautiful morning as we headed out from Wellington Pt to "discover" the remote King Island (not in Bass Straight ... that's Silvio's blog).  Ok, well it felt remote as we were the only people on it. After a short break, we headed across to Tingalpa Ck with its very interesting(?) house boats.

On the way back to Wellington Pt we saw what seemed to be people walking across the water. Was this some mass religious experience on Sunday morning???

As we got closer, thoughts of remote islands disappeared as we realised the low tide sandbar allowed everyone with legs and/or a walking frame could also "discover" King Island.   :-(

Did this lot get caught out by the incoming tide?  Maybe...   ;-)

Dawn patrol to Green Island

Although the forecast was for wind up to 20kts, the launch seemed perfect for a paddle across to Green Island.



The beach with a mix of sand and broken coral could be miles from civilisation ... except that you can still see BrisVegas 5.5km to the west.



Perhaps this is why they call it Green Island?



The calm before the storm? ... not quite, just smooth paddling out of the wind before the 6.5km run home when the wind did get up to around 20kts.

3 in a row.

An easy paddle around Coochie this morning with light winds. Before a break at the beach I thought I would try a few rolls in the kayak. After completing three in a row I was very happy. This was only my 5th day trying and the first without anyone spotting me.   :-)

Sunset over the Eastern Escarpement

A different view of the Eastern Escarpement (EE). This was taken from our campsite at Blakeley's Anchorage on North Stradbroke Island which is only accessible by boat. We paddled our sea kayaks from Redland Bay via Karragarra Island to Blakeley's to spend a very pleasant evening there.

The spacious campsite with a great water view.

Beware - the Karragarra Ninja are following.

"Will you guys stop talking and help me get my head out of here ... its stuck!!"

Damiano in an interesting seascape.