Yesterday we did our last shop and paid our marina bill for the 12 days ($660), and last night we topped up our  water (800 litres) and power (not much as solar is covering our usage in the marina easily) and packed up the boat back into sailing mode.

This morning after disconnecting the power and lines we moved over to the fuel dock to top off our diesel tank (287 litres)

We headed out of Bermagui north towards our overnight anchorage at Broulee island.

The coastline along here is just one beach, a bunch of rocks, another beach, another bunch of rocks just over and over again. So many beaches, some of them with townships above them many of them empty of obvious habitation.

We passed 20 Humpback whales including two calves in all sorts of states. Tail slapping, cruising, breaching acrobats and one of the calves copying its mothers fin slapping…. Too cute !

A herd of seals sunning and lolling about lazily in the gentle swell while the terns dived dramatically all around the boat at great speeds for a catch.

The scavenging seagulls heard in the background, always on the lookout for opportunities. It’s so beautiful to witness all this wildlife roughly one nautical mile (1.85kms) offshore.

It’s a beautiful day to be on the water if only the wind wasn’t on the nose.

We have anchored north east of Broulee island, unfortunately we have motored all day with the wind starting NW and ending up NE, it’s supposed to go back across north later and end up coming from the south by morning, so maybe tomorrow we will be able to sail for a while 🤞 on our trip up to Jervis bay.