Sunday 8 June
Up early and ran close to the beach Went for a walk, very pretty town all the shops were open until lunchtime, not bad on a Sunday. They have a very pretty walk along the water’s edge with many holidaymakers fishing ext.

The water police arrived, launched a 16-foot tinnie, and were watched by an interested crowd of about 12 people. Obviously not much in the way of entertainment at Burrum Heads on a Sunday. The many side comments passed by the wags in the crowd were quite entertaining.
Gary and Barney arrived, we loaded Gary’s gear on, and off we set to run up to Burnett Heads. We had a stiff 20-knot south easterly behind us. Poor Polly the tender took quite a beating as we did. We very quickly let Polly out on a longer towrope but could not get a rope on behind her to provide some drag to keep her straight. In trying, Polly got very upset with Gary and gave him a bit of a beating. First aid kit used for the first time and Gary got another lesson in treating women with respect.

Arrived at Burnett River mouth in dark and made our way up past the sugar terminals and anchored for the night.