We left the Harbour 0500 to a breaking overcast morning. Conditions were good with a spaced lump as we left the Harbour and improved as the day wore on.
Our first leg was Brampton/Carlisle, 34klms Nth of Mackay Harbour. Ross had his first encounter with a flying fish, that he was delighted to tell me it was flying alongside him for a while only a few meters away. I haven’t seen any in these waters yet.
We had both been this area a few times, so kept on.
Second leg to Cockermouth Island a 10k run
Cockermouth Islands north side with Ross doing his search and explore up close and personnel with every islands first encounter. We run along the northern side being the islands lengthy side. 3rd leg to Wigton Island my and Ross’s furthest trip in that group of Islands. A 7k run via Siloth Rocks about midway.
Wigton Island is little jewel of the Cumberlands Group. Circumnavigated the Island to find several sand beaches all having turtle tracks to presumed nest like we found on the first beach.
Passing our start of the circumnavigation and to the southern end. To make our 4th leg to Scawfell Island, Refuge Bay to start with.
That was Scawfell Island another beauty in its own way. 5th leg on to Egremont Passsage that divides St Bees & Keswick Islands. Topped up our fuel for the 6th leg run home at Keswick. I added 10 ltrs, as it turned out I only used 51.5 for the 147k trip. My tank holds 60ltrs, better to have topped up at Keswick to make sure. Great adventure and will do again at more relaxed pace now having done it, conditions permitting.
PS This Blog was a long time in completing and have missed many a trip, now being March 2021. Due to web hosting issues I had lost interest, they just keep inventing ways to try extract more money. Will ignore them issues and restart.
Thanks George
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