MELBOURNE 26 6. St Kilda to Queenscliff

Joanne Jones

A very foggy start this morning. Had to cross the shipping lane and the only way to identify ships was through their fog horns and locating them on the plotter. Had to cut to the stern to a large container ship that we couldn’t see in the fog until we were five minutes away from it. Calm seas and only 5-6knots of winds meant that we motored most of the way to Queenscliff. The sun broke through just before lunchtime and it was a beautiful day after that. Anchored just north of the ferry terminal in 3.8m of water in virtually dead calm conditions…very little swell just the wash from the ferry when it came in from Sorrento. Plan to head out the heads with the slack tide around 9am tomorrow morning.