Whitsunday Sailboat Cruise - Ragamuffin II - Day 1 ...
Matt is the captain, Andy the crew. 20-knot winds the first day, we were keeled over pretty strongly, waves breaking over the bow. The person closest to the bow got the brunt of the waves. Sometimes they had an impromptu, drenching shower.
Because of limited cockpit space, we did a lot of our activities on the deck, like eating meals. This proved to be a bit of a challenge, the first day lettuce leaves were found all over the deck. Lunch was pasta salad (spicy!), lettuce salad, and sandwiches. It was quite good. Each of us had to do dishes, but only once during the cruise. Showers were limited to 2-minutes, basically a soap down, then a rinse cycle, kinda like a car wash!
On the deck I met four young guys spending a semester in school in Sidney on an overseas study program, Brian, Kyle, Mark and Henrik. Brian and Mark were from Chicago, Kyle from Las Vegas and Henrik was from Denmark. They were real nice guys and seemed to get along with each other and others onboard well, as actually everybody onboard did. They had driven from Hervey Bay to Airlie Beach during the night, arrived at their hostel, had about an hours sleep and started on this cruise. Needless to say they slept well the first night!
We stopped at Luncheon Bay for snorkeling. I almost always enjoy snorkeling even when the visibility isn't great, like at this location.
Dinner was pasta with garlic bread and salads and very tasty!
After dinner we watched at close hand an enactment of natures food chain. A large school of squid were feeding on small fish. Meanwhile several sharks were feeding on the squid. When spooked the entire school of squid would leap out of the water at once. The sharks circled and then moved in incredibly quickly for the kill. The squid were quite beautiful, they appeared in red irridescent colors and floated gracefully through the water. We watched this scene play out for over an hour. The sharks were probably white or black tipped reef sharks or gray nurse sharks. Not the kind of shark that normally attacks humans. Even so, it was very impressive how fast they could move!
As the expression goes, living onboard you're in very close quarters. Fortunately we all got along well and I didn't see any incidents of any sort.
Matt, our captain, slept on deck and tended not to be an early riser.
Matt is the captain, Andy the crew. 20-knot winds the first day, we were keeled over pretty strongly, waves breaking over the bow. The person closest to the bow got the brunt of the waves. Sometimes they had an impromptu, drenching shower.
Because of limited cockpit space, we did a lot of our activities on the deck, like eating meals. This proved to be a bit of a challenge, the first day lettuce leaves were found all over the deck. Lunch was pasta salad (spicy!), lettuce salad, and sandwiches. It was quite good. Each of us had to do dishes, but only once during the cruise. Showers were limited to 2-minutes, basically a soap down, then a rinse cycle, kinda like a car wash!
On the deck I met four young guys spending a semester in school in Sidney on an overseas study program, Brian, Kyle, Mark and Henrik. Brian and Mark were from Chicago, Kyle from Las Vegas and Henrik was from Denmark. They were real nice guys and seemed to get along with each other and others onboard well, as actually everybody onboard did. They had driven from Hervey Bay to Airlie Beach during the night, arrived at their hostel, had about an hours sleep and started on this cruise. Needless to say they slept well the first night!
We stopped at Luncheon Bay for snorkeling. I almost always enjoy snorkeling even when the visibility isn't great, like at this location.
Dinner was pasta with garlic bread and salads and very tasty!
After dinner we watched at close hand an enactment of natures food chain. A large school of squid were feeding on small fish. Meanwhile several sharks were feeding on the squid. When spooked the entire school of squid would leap out of the water at once. The sharks circled and then moved in incredibly quickly for the kill. The squid were quite beautiful, they appeared in red irridescent colors and floated gracefully through the water. We watched this scene play out for over an hour. The sharks were probably white or black tipped reef sharks or gray nurse sharks. Not the kind of shark that normally attacks humans. Even so, it was very impressive how fast they could move!
As the expression goes, living onboard you're in very close quarters. Fortunately we all got along well and I didn't see any incidents of any sort.
Matt, our captain, slept on deck and tended not to be an early riser.
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