Third mate reports from the Whitsundays

Hello. It's the third mate here to tell you about Hammo, Montes, and Mays Bay. I have been living aboard for six months and I'm ten years old. I'm loving life on the seven swelly seas (a.k.a. Coral Sea). So down to business.

Mum, can I have a pie for breakfast? Mum, can I have a pie for dinner?

We pulled in to Hammo marina excited and nervous. First Mate and I went to the bakery and ran back to the boat ladened down with PIES!  Mmmm my favourite! After lunch we raced to the airport, put 2nd mate and ship's monkey on a plane, and it was "Yeah!! Room to myself. Computer to my self." Well for me that is.

 

Au revoir 2nd mate + ship's monkey

Ah finally one more day till "SCHOOL'S UP FOR THE HOLIDAYS!!!" Wait. Is that an assessment due? Thousands of bilious blue blistering barnacles! We sailed into Mays Bay and I was almost sick over the side! We pulled in and I finished my movie about two tigers facing an ethical dilemma.

Violet and Chester begin a career as film stars!

 Then we hit the couch, had a party and went to bed. THE END.



The sun sets on term 2 (Mays Bay)

Oh wait there's more to it. Yes now I remember. Next morning I was just getting ready to finish up for HOLIDAYS!!!!! Dad ran up the gangway and jumped off the swim deck shouting GERONIMOOOOOOO! Yes and then we pulled up anchor and we sailed through the Hook Passage keeping clear of those pesky shoals. How dare they try to ground the mighty Arjuna?

Whitehaven all over again. We came around the point and a glorious.... arrrrrgggghhhh Dad where are my sunglasses? It was blinding because unlike our first visit the sun was shining. We dropped anchor and bonzeye! One minute we were on deck dry as a bone and... well what do you know we're in the water. How'd that happen? Dad and I swam in to the beach and ran along the sand to get warm because we had both left our jumpers on the boat. A tip that may be useful later on in life . . . let me think . . . aaah yes:

1. A jumper is more useful if you don't leave it on the boat!

Whitehaven - all the other boats are up the other end.

Next morning woken up by the sun that just happened to be shining in my eyes we jumped in the dinghy and.....Zoom Zoom Zoom vroooooooom screeeeech we all jumped out of the dinghy and ran up the beach. Dad threw the Frisbee. I kicked the soccer ball and voila. After about an hour of that I sat down and made a twig fort and then (what would you expect someone like me to do?) I had lunch.

We departed Whitehaven. As we passed the Hook Passage, I was down stairs playing Minecraft when mum yelled "Whale!" Ohhhh, that sounds interesting, so I went up stairs and there I saw a whale spouting. 

 

Moon sets at Butterfly Bay

We got to Butterfly Bay and Dad fell asleep blogging as I myself am doing at this very moment although I'm not going to fall asllllllllll.......snore ssssshhhhhssshhshsh  snore ssssssssssssshhhhhhhhsssss snore oh sorry did I fall asleep? That's embarrassing. Definitely not going to happen again.



Sunset at Butterfly Bay



We departed Butterfly Bay . . .well mum and dad departed. I was downstairs asleep. On the way out of Butterfly Bay we went head to head with a cat - yes a cat - all until its dinghy fell off the back. Then we pulled up our mainsail but before we could do anything it ripped. It was so rolly I went back downstairs. After a while I went back upstairs and went up the mast because things had settled down closer to Gloucester Passage. Things had calmed down so much we had to pull down the jib.

WE HAVE FIRE!!!

At Gloucester Passage we went ashore and had dinner. Some little kids walked up who took great interest in our dinghy. After that they started walking around a massive bonfire ooohing and aahing. We had our dinner watching the sunset, sat by the fire, had dessert and then vroomed back to the boat.

Sunset at Gloucester passage