Slow hops back to Cairns
With windy weather returning, we knew our days at the reef were numbered and we decided to slowly hop back towards Cairns. We set ourselves a challenge: stop at new spots along the way to make the trip more interesting.
With windy weather returning, we knew our days at the reef were numbered and we decided to slowly hop back towards Cairns. We set ourselves a challenge: stop at new spots along the way to make the trip more interesting.
For the third and last post in our August 2023 Coral Sea Series, we are making another hop to a different atoll to take advantage of the last days of calm weather. This time we sail to Flora Reef, 75nm NW of Flinders Reefs.
We have been at Airlie Beach for 12 days waiting for parts we ordered to arrive, one of them critical for us to get away, and as luck would have it, it is the one we still haven’t got. However there is a ‘but’!