Mooloolaba
Quartermoon
Mike Share & Sammy Byron
Fri 20 May 2011 09:22
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11 hours later we entered Mooloolaba
in the dark. Thank God for chartplotters as the navigation lights were confusing
as hell! We motored some way up the river past Minyama Island to the anchoring
area and dropped the hook, hoping we were out of the channel and not too close
to the many moored boats.
When we woke up we were surrounded by
multi-million dollar houses all with private jetties and boats. What financial
crisis? Someone forgot to tell these people! The
places are unbelievable and most are surprisingly tasteful. We threw the $60
super dinghy in the water and went ashore for a look around and a swim. The
waves off the Spit were perfect body-surfing waves, if a little dangerous. A few
times I expected to be carted off with a spinal injury as they dumped with
serious power if you got it wrong; I think this is where Haike and Mads warned
us about! It was our first proper ocean swim since Great Keppel Island so we
reveled in it and spent a few hours bodysurfing.
Next we decided to go for an explore
down the Kawana Waters Canal as we knew there was a marina and shops down there.
Really we just wanted to check out the boats and houses! We found the marina
just in time as it started to rain. What a surprise, the restaurant was doing $1
oysters so obviously it was time for lunch. We wanted to dive the HMAS Brisbane,
a wreck Gav and I dived a few years back but time was running out as we had a
hard date to fly back to UK and we really wanted to anti-foul and get QM back to
Sydney before then.
  We decided we had cooked onboard
enough over the last few weeks so we went ashore for a curry and a few beers at
the RSL on the beach. Tomorrow we will be back at sea shortly before going into
Moreton Bay (Brisbane), which has yet more navigational, shipping and tidal
challenges!
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