It was a late morning start after a brief tender ride to Refuge Bay. We motored from Nara through Hook Passage and caught a nice 7 knot breeze for a 3 mile sail across to Cateran Bay at Border Island. We first anchored on "High Noon's" starboard side. She had sailed from Nara about and hour or two before we did. After three tries at getting our anchor to set, Peter dinghied over to advise that we should lower a lot of chain over the side and let the anchor gradually set itself.
We took his advice and we were anchored well enough to take the tender to the beach and climb the "saddle" to look at the view across to Hazelwood Island. It was a nice beach and a steep climb through grass that turned out to be like miniature palm trees.
We saw that a mooring ball had been vacated so we moved "Temptress" to pick up the mooring. Unfortunately, it was for a max of 10 meters so we were too big and dropped back to anchor again.
Then we took the dinghy to snorkel on the western side of the bay. It had a great spectacle of color, fish, rocks and was very nice indeed.
That night we enjoyed the stars as we did every night. One of the first constellations we see every night is the Southern Cross. Later the Milky Way is seen in its full glory.
We had gone below for some time when we heard many splashes in the water. When we took a flashlight to the cockpit we could see multiple fish jumping and splashing around our sailboat. It was a tremendous sight to catch the silvery glint of the fish in the light of the "torch" from the boat.
We had to agree that Ann's ("High Noon") recommendation of snorkeling at Cateran Bay was a great one.
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