Spent a lovely morning on the paddleboard at Wineglass Bay before reluctantly heading off around 10am. It was virtually dead calm when we left the bay and we motored for two hours down the coast to the Schouten Passage. We picked up a little wind in the passage and were able to get the Genoa up and achieve 4-4.5knots. 

When we were clear of the island we had a SE wind and current behind us and were able to have both the head sails up across the bay achieving 4.5 knots from about 5 knots of wind. About an hour out, the winds dropped to around 2 knots and we motored the rest of the way in. The charts showed two fish farms in the bay but we saw no evidence of either of them. The charts also showed a MAST mooring off the end of the pier. We couldn’t find anything labelled MAST but found a large yellow mooring we assumed was it but upon trying to pick it up, it was so encrusted with mussels that there was no loop to fix to. Not trusting it as sound, we decided to anchor instead. We dropped anchor in 2.3m of water between the end of the jetty and the closest mooring.

We spent the rest of the afternoon at the supermarket in town (close to the end of the jetty) reprovisioning. The supermarket wasn’t huge but had good meat and fresh fruit and vegetables cooked chickens and everything else we needed. There were also two petrol stations both 24/7 within 200m of end of the pier where we plan to fill our Jerry cans before heading to Cole’s back in the morning.



Tassie 9. Wineglass Bay to Swansea

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