Flinders Reef Main Cay

Escape to the Coral Sea – Part 2

For the second post in our August 2023 Coral Sea series, we leave the protection of the Great Barrier Reef and head out to the Flinders Group, approximately 100nm north from our last anchorage at Kangaroo Reef.

Kennedy Reef looking south

Escape to the Coral Sea – Part 1

We are lucky enough to have escaped to the Outer Reefs and the Coral Sea. For how long is in the hands of the weather gods, but we intend to share our voyage through a series of posts. Today, part one of the series, we are taking you to the very outer edge of the…

Anui at Big Stevens Reef

Reef Reconnaissance off Mackay

With only a few days of calm weather sandwiched between long periods of 25-30 SE, we had to curtail our ambition to go out to the Coral Sea atoll of Marion Reef and instead opted to do a reconnaissance trip to the inner reefs 60-70 nm east of Mackay.