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’!
It’s happened again, we got hit at night! We were anchored in the river at Burnett Heads last Friday evening, having returned from Lady Musgrave. We got woken up at 3am by some odd chain sounds then two alarming bangs.
Sv-Anui 