Small Sailboat Cruising's video: Noosa River Cruise Part II The upper reaches of the Noosa River

Noosa River Cruise Part II I set off from Figtree Point sailing the upper reaches of the Noosa River. Thanks to Michael Shynes for "to the River" You can find his video here. https://youtu.be/Axpu4AIhWjs Used under license artlist.io It’s not long before we catch up with the flotilla of kayaks that set out ahead of us. I throttled back as far as the engine will go before the decompression cuts in to cut down on wake and noise. She has pretty much two speeds, stop and go, and there is no neutral or reverse. The baffles in the muffler have rusted out long ago, and it is situations like this I am reminded it needs replacing. 00:00 Setting out from Figtree Point 04:23 Watch out for the overhead branches 06:44 I crash my boat 10:33 Campsite number 3 13:31 Rowing to campsite 4 16:44 Reflecting on 40 years of Moonlight 22:00 Climbing the ancient sand dunes to the sand blow 30:30 Brush Turkey attack 31:11 Rowing in the evening to my river mooring You need to stay on your toes navigating through this section where tea trees and eucalypts lean ponderously in towards the centre of the river. It would be easy enough to sink the boat at this pace if you were to catch the rigging in one of the branches. Even though it is a bit quiet with Covid things going on, there are still quite a few kayaks. This middle section heading up towards Harry’s Hut is well within reach of kayak fishermen, and powerboats still have access using their petrol motors. Approximately four kilometres north of where the Noosa River joins with the northern end of Lake Cootharaba you come to Harry’s hut nestled into the west bank of the river. A reasonable gravel road gives access to the camping area, but I would think it is impassable with heavy rain. It is a popular place for kayakers to launch their assault on the upper reaches of the river. Harry’s hut was built by timber getters in the fifties as accommodation for their forest crews, and the lease has been taken over by the parks department. It was back in the mid-seventies when a high school friend and I borrowed his uncle’s boat and sailed down the Freycinet Peninsula in Tasmania. This was the boat I copied to create Moonlight years later. We stayed the first night in his parent’s shack on Fisheries beach. The night before we left we discovered his fathers’ grog cupboard, full of a lot of different types of top-shelf. So the natural thing to do was take a little out of the top of each bottle so as to make it less obvious we had been there. It was my first experience of alcohol, and I still dry-reach at the whiff of a bottle of Gin. Moonlight is a 12 ft classic clinker dinghy and Mozart is a 40-year-old fibreglass trailer sailer. The building, restoring, and most of all sailing realistic affordable sailboats www.facebook.com/groups/sailingbeat/ https://sailingmoonlight.com https://www.patreon.com/sailingmoonlight Follow Christophers Adventures in Moonlight on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/christopherjsly www.linkedin.com/in/christophersly Get Updates on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dinghymoonlight Join us at Fraser Coast Dinghy Cruising https://www.facebook.com/groups/frasercoastdinghycruising/ Get more information on Christopher and learn how Business Pilot can help you in your small business. www.linkedin.com/in/christophersly https://businesspilot.com.au I am here to mentor regardless of where you live, on land or sea. chris@businesspilot.com.au +61 (0) 421 713 140