A gentle start to the day visiting the Triabunna Bakehouse, the service station and the supermarket and then a delightful shower at the Visitor Centre. We left Triabunna with the sun behind us, which certainly helps to ascertain the limits of the incredibly narrow and in places tortuous channel, setting sail abeam the woodchip loader.
Once out in Great Oyster Bay the wind proved to be strengthening and short seas were developing. After trying to sail for around two hours, the wind and sea state had worsened to make progress extremely uncomfortable and slow. Back to motor sailing and ultimately to straight motoring as the destination was of course, directly into the wind. The nominally six hour trip ended up taking around eight hours with the seas often bringing Tegwen almost to what seemed like a halt. The bad conditions all disappeared as we approached the shelter of Bryan's Corner at the western end of Schouten Passage.
The anchor went down just on sunset and once Tegwen was tidied, Bruce cooked a great barbecue pork and rice dish for dinner. There are just three other boats nearby, such a contrast to mid January!
