Day Zero, Day-1: Jacob's Well - Wellington Point - Flingtime

We got up bright and early, stowed the mooring lines and remembered to fire up the iAIS simulator for marinetraffic.com so our family & friends could track out progress.
It was cool, damp from dew, and still like some sort of winter doldrums. This departure certainly felt different. Our car was at home, not in the car park, and there was no other activity in the marina. It was a good day for sleeping-in?
We cast off and motored north in the main channel,  passing west of Russell Island, watching out for the ferries, and despite the low tide,  took the shortest (and shallowest) path to Moreton Bay, ‘squeezing’ between McLeay and Garden Islands. We had breakfast en-route.
The sails were hoisted and we did our best to ‘sail’ but it was very slow going with a distinct chill in the light westerly breeze. We went east of Peel Is. in the vain hope the wind direction might change as the weather report covered a various possibilities that day. Umm ... not our usual routine.... Moreton Bay anchorages for sustained westerly winds? We chose Wellington Point just near the boat ramp and jetty as it was late afternoon and our options were quite limited. The local fishermen gave us anchoring tips and were a little concerned when we anchored in close for 1.5metres of  low tide under the boat, which is our rule-of-thumb minimum. Of more concern was what lay within our 30 metre diameter swing circle.

Meanwhile, John’s sister Susan just happened to be in Brisbane, so evening #1 saw our first visitors. John fetched her from the boat ramp which was quite slippery and later dropped her off at the public jetty which required ducking under several fishing lines. I don’t think they have many overnight visitors over there.
It was a very quiet anchorage in a westerly and I am sure we dreamt of fair breezes from the south-east.