Those of you in OZ or NZ would have seen the weather reports. Last week sunny with temperatures of 37 degrees and over. This week another storm cell has hit Brisbane. 100km winds 7m waves hitting the coast. We are in the river which is missing most of it, but still getting 75km wind gusts.
As we knew the storm was coming, we hauled anchor and re-anchored another 15m into the middle of the river. we couldn’t venture any further as we were encroaching on the ferries path.
The wind is now coming from the south and pushing us towards the rock wall. This is when we put faith in our anchor as the wind has pushed us to about 25m from shore.
Needless to say we didn’t get much sleep last night and Sue has me still sat in the cockpit on look out. I should have taken the photo at dawn when the water was over the river bank. Unfortunately it doesn’t show how much it was blowing. In the background is our friends ground floor apartment. I think they may have had a restless night as well.
