Category Archives: 2025

Wow, it has been a big few days.  We are all packed up, with The Bossa now sitting on the red dirt of the banks of the Mary River, Maryborough.

It has been a crazy few weeks since our rendezvous with Waterfront in Yeppoon. The weather has certainly dictated our choices and fortunately our decisions proved to be the correct ones.

What a special time it is when we have family on board. We had 10 days of calm weather, no strong winds and no rain, but it was very hot and humid.  A heat wave had engulfed Queensland.  

We haven’t visited the Whitsundays’ outer reefs for some time, in fact we think our last visit was in 2022. With a calm weather window approaching here in the Whitsundays, before our family fly in to Hamilton Island, it was perfect timing to get out there.

So what have we been doing the last few weeks? Once Lizard Island was off the agenda, it was an easy plan … “we need to go south?”

I have always wanted to visit Flynn Reef.  After our friends on Anui wrote about Flynn Reef a few seasons back and Gerry from Aqualibrium kept mentioning it, I was quite thrilled to finally get there.

What a fun week we’ve had with our ex-ET crew. We collected our Cairns friends Leanne and Steve from Dunk Island where we enjoyed a lunch at the Spit Bar together, before sailing out to the outer reefs of Beaver and Taylor.

After our reef visit we could see a window to visit the stunning Zoe Bay on Hinchinbrook Island. Zoe Bay is known for its long sandy pristine beach, lush tropical rainforest backdrop, high spectacular mountain peaks and an iconic waterfall.  

Back to the reef! Once our ‘overnight’ parcel arrived, we hightailed from the Townsville Marina as quickly as we could. 

It has been a while since my last post.  Our trip from Yeppoon to Maggie has had some ups and downs, but hey, what is it they say about the definition of cruising? 

We always try to stop by Lady Musgrave in the Southern Reef after Hervey Bay.  With a small weather window beckoning we found ourselves in an unexpected rather wild ride to get there.  

We often see humpback whales on our journey north. Humpbacks migrate annually to the warmer Queensland waters between May and November for breeding and calving. They are on a mission to get north and we the same.

I suppose you could say our 2025 ‘season’ started way back in April, or even March, when Queensland’s big weather event impacted the Gold Coast.