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Image: Snorkeling.

Image: Whitehaven beach.

Monday 27th July

We left Shaw Island this morning and headed to the famous Whitehaven Beach.
To get there we had to go through the Solway Passage. This meant timing it
with the tide. We got through just as the tide changed and even in the slack
tide the turbulent and eddie currents moved our 25 tonne boat around quite a
lot.

As we rounded the corner we could see the immense white sand beach and boat
loads of people at the southern end of the beach. We stopped quarter of the
way up the beach for a couple of hours for a swim and walk. After lunch we
headed off to Apostle Bay where we spent the night and fed the fish some
more.

Tuesday morning we headed off to Cateran Bay, Border Island where it was a
little more sheltered and we snorkeled around the reef. We would like to
have stayed there the night but there was two hour limits on mooring in the
bay and other boats wanted to come in. We headed off to Luncheon Bay for
the night.

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