Wednesday 22nd June We left Butterfly Bay Monday morning and headed around the corner to Stonehaven. Toni guided us through the Narrows, the channel between the reef extending out from Hayman Island and the reef coming off Hook island. This time we anchored in the bay. This meant there was no mooring bouy to bang up against the bow in the middle of the night.
We spent Tuesday just chilling on the boat, with the occasional swim around the boat.
Wednesday we motored the short distance to Langford Reef. The sea was a little choppy but we all piled in the dinghy and headed to where we thought the last two underwater statues were. The first one we found was the Anthozoa (a 20,000 times sculpture of a single coral polyp). It didn’t take long to find the turtle not far away. Andrew took the dinghy ashore while everyone else swam. After a short walk on the sandspit it was time to get out of the chilling wind and head back to Imagine.
Leaving Langford we headed back to Stonehaven for lunch. The idea was to check out the reef in Stonehaven after lunch, but after the morning’s snorkeling and the big lunch everyone just chilled. We’ll check out the rest tomorrow.
FYI the weather hasn’t been conducive to moving around the islands easily with strong SE winds and E swell. Even though there are some big hills, the wind sends bullets down and the swell sometimes whips around the island coming in more southerly and when you get wind against tide the sea can be quite messy.
We spent Tuesday just chilling on the boat, with the occasional swim around the boat.
Wednesday we motored the short distance to Langford Reef. The sea was a little choppy but we all piled in the dinghy and headed to where we thought the last two underwater statues were. The first one we found was the Anthozoa (a 20,000 times sculpture of a single coral polyp). It didn’t take long to find the turtle not far away. Andrew took the dinghy ashore while everyone else swam. After a short walk on the sandspit it was time to get out of the chilling wind and head back to Imagine.
Leaving Langford we headed back to Stonehaven for lunch. The idea was to check out the reef in Stonehaven after lunch, but after the morning’s snorkeling and the big lunch everyone just chilled. We’ll check out the rest tomorrow.
FYI the weather hasn’t been conducive to moving around the islands easily with strong SE winds and E swell. Even though there are some big hills, the wind sends bullets down and the swell sometimes whips around the island coming in more southerly and when you get wind against tide the sea can be quite messy.
