Funny looking hump at Humpy Island

With many islands, the Keppel Group is a beautiful playground.  Varied walks, interesting flora and birdlife, superb coral sites where each spot is different, uncrowded anchorages – especially if you dare stray from the official ones noted in the cruising guides – the Keppel Islands really have a lot to offer.  One of these was Humpy…

Yellow Patch

The warm glow of Yellow Patch

After Masthead Island, we decide coral cays without a lagoon are not the most comfortable anchorages and that instead of visiting another cay, we should head back to the mainland, to renowned Yellow Patch, on the Tropic of Capricorn.  It is 1/8/15 when we get there, having enjoyed a rollicking sail under Big Red, our…

Mastead Island Aerial

Deserted Masthead Island

Our third coral cay on this trip, Masthead Island, offers a different seascape again.  A long strip of Pisonia forest with a thin beach of crushed coral all around and reef exposed at low tide, you can only access the island with ease at high tide.  At low tide the fringing reef makes it impossible…