Hi guys

A bit of shameless self promotion.

I do a weekly video on my Youtube channel about my work as a photographer and have decided to continue the weekly uploads while sailing for the next 5 months. Currently in Newport Marina getting Nautilus ready to go again. Heading north early next week.



I'm a sailing rookie so go easy

>Vernon

Great video Dexport, and really nice boat, good luck on your trip, fair winds mate.

Thanks Bruski, heading off tomorrow.

Hey Vernon
Have been checking out your videos and now they show the actual trip have subscribed and enjoying the escape you provide from my otherwise dreary workday in the office. How'd you go crossing the Wide Bay bar, would be interested in any footage you have? Same with Round Hill Creek bar, I understand it is pretty shallow and I imagine those northerlies would have made it interesting.

All the best with the rest of your trip, hopefully some of the other Seabreezers will get behind you and subscribe too.

Hey Vernon seen your 1770 video, glad to see that the place hasn't as yet succumbed to the pressures of tourism, it would be a shame if this fantastic little town became over run by resorts like most other places in Qld, it's such a breathe of fresh air.

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Bruski068 said..
Hey Vernon seen your 1770 video, glad to see that the place hasn't as yet succumbed to the pressures of tourism, it would be a shame if this fantastic little town became over run by resorts like most other places in Qld, it's such a breathe of fresh air.

Back in the late 80s I used to bash my Falcon up 80 klms of corrugated dirt road to get there with punters on board 4 or 5 times a week to sell them 40 acre blocks for $15,000 a bit back from the beach and later 3 acre blocks closer to the beach with bitumen road and power supply for $25,000.

Look at the prices today!! Not one of those arseholes ever wrote me a letter thanking me for getting them into such a good investment or bought me a carton of beer or a bottle of rum.

Yeah!!, those land salesmen are just a bunch of rip off artists.

You think the place has not succumbed to the pressures of tourism. Agnes Water and 1770 depend on tourism and associated service industries as they always have as there is nothing else there.

My associates and myself put that place on the map. My wife and I personally initiated the annual festival commemorating the second landing of Captain Cook on the Australian mainland with the visits of the Bounty replica and the Soren Larsen and a couple of other tall ships and a re-enactment of Cook's landing. We had 2,000 people on the beach that day which was the biggest gathering of people the joint had seen to that day.

The Town of 1770 is in shame really because although the Cook Monument is still there, some bureaucrat (rat being the operative) determined that "The Doorway to Destiny" should be removed from the headland.

The inscription on "The Doorway to Destiny" expressed the dual ideals of "Adventure and Achievement" upon which this nation was founded. Shame, Shame, Shame.

The latest shame is the burning of the tourist vessel that ran out of there to Lady Musgrave Island. I am convinced that the cowboy who was running it has tried to pull off an insurance job. I worked for this prick for 6 days and told him to shove it. I believe he is a cheater all round.

The bar at Round Hill Creek is about ankle deep at low tide and when you get in there the anchorage is very poor holding. I tell you this from personal experience so go in there at your own risk.

It is a beautiful place still but you need to be aware of the realities.

Have a look at Vernon's vid and you will see a couple of yachts laying over on the low tide.

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cisco said..

Bruski068 said..
Hey Vernon seen your 1770 video, glad to see that the place hasn't as yet succumbed to the pressures of tourism, it would be a shame if this fantastic little town became over run by resorts like most other places in Qld, it's such a breathe of fresh air.

Back in the late 80s I used to bash my Falcon up 80 klms of corrugated dirt road to get there with punters on board 4 or 5 times a week to sell them 40 acre blocks for $15,000 a bit back from the beach and later 3 acre blocks closer to the beach with bitumen road and power supply for $25,000.

Look at the prices today!! Not one of those arseholes ever wrote me a letter thanking me for getting them into such a good investment or bought me a carton of beer or a bottle of rum.

Yeah!!, those land salesmen are just a bunch of rip off artists.

You think the place has not succumbed to the pressures of tourism. Agnes Water and 1770 depend on tourism and associated service industries as they always have as there is nothing else there.

My associates and myself put that place on the map. My wife and I personally initiated the annual festival commemorating the second landing of Captain Cook on the Australian mainland with the visits of the Bounty replica and the Soren Larsen and a couple of other tall ships and a re-enactment of Cook's landing. We had 2,000 people on the beach that day which was the biggest gathering of people the joint had seen to that day.

The Town of 1770 is in shame really because although the Cook Monument is still there, some bureaucrat (rat being the operative) determined that "The Doorway to Destiny" should be removed from the headland.

The inscription on "The Doorway to Destiny" expressed the dual ideals of "Adventure and Achievement" upon which this nation was founded. Shame, Shame, Shame.

The latest shame is the burning of the tourist vessel that ran out of there to Lady Musgrave Island. I am convinced that the cowboy who was running it has tried to pull off an insurance job. I worked for this prick for 6 days and told him to shove it. I believe he is a cheater all round.

The bar at Round Hill Creek is about ankle deep at low tide and when you get in there the anchorage is very poor holding. I tell you this from personal experience so go in there at your own risk.

It is a beautiful place still but you need to be aware of the realities.

I'm not against tourism, it's when it seems as though there is more resorts in a town than regular homes that I find sickening, the Gold Coast was once a beautiful place to visit, now it's just another concrete jungle ready to mug the next visitor for their last ten cents, and it's the same all up the Qld east coast until you get passed Port Douglass, so I was glad to see that 1770 looked like it hadn't succumbed, although there was not much of the township or surrounds shown, and I was only going on what was shown.

Agree with Cisco that 1770 isn't what it once was and that it is has succumbed to the tourist trap and property development scene, but it is still a nice laid back place to visit and the mining boom in Gladstone hasn't affected it too much. The beauty of the place is that it is surrounded north by Eurimbula National Park and south by Deepwater National Park, both areas are pristine and amazing coastal parks with your choice of surf beach or creeks with keel boat access into Pancake Creek and tinny access to every other creek all the way north to Turkey Beach. We usually opt for a week away camping on the coast with an ice cream in 1770 on the way home, but the civilised option is there if you want it too.

Cisco, I think we better get you back out on the water so you can get rid of some of that pent up anger!

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Wander66 said..
Same with Round Hill Creek bar, I understand it is pretty shallow and I imagine those northerlies would have made it interesting.

I went in there last year and found it very shallow, then on the way out I had my Polaroids on and got a large shock.

I had cut the corner on the way in but went out via the deep water.


So, wear your Polaroids when approaching shallow water.

Thanks for all the comments guys..
I only went to 1770 for the first time last year so I can't attest to much change in that time. I love the vibe there, just a nice place to stop and relax for a few days while waiting for a good window to go out to the reef.

Hey Wander.

So far I have had nothing but smooth sailing over the Wide Bay Bar. Im very particular though about getting the tides and weather right as I'm not very keen to experience the ugly side of her. Round Hill can catch you out very easily as the 40ft motor cat in the carpark will prove. She was driven in a 20kts, autopilot on and no-one at the helm, straight into the rocks.
Pretty shallow but we got out at midnight on a half-tide, sounder showing zero! All sand though and as long as the tide is incoming then its not really a problem.