Refuge Cove, Wilsons Promontory

This part of our journey didn’t go totally according to plan. Our calculations for the time it would take to get to Refuge Cove from Port Fairy were slightly out. Someone…..(not me) concluded it would take us around 44 hours sailing at 5knots. We averaged 6.5knots, left a little earlier etc. Anyway, needless to say, our calculations were wrong for many reasons. After 32.5 hours, we arrived at Refuge Cove at 2000 on a dark moonless night and proceeded to feel our way blindly into the cove, drop anchor and go to bed (thank goodness for GPS).

Refuge Cove is beautiful; fantastic, in fact! We went for a walk to a look out over looking Sealer’s Cove. The walk took us through temperate rainforest, and once out of the valleys, we enjoyed the native scrub.

The afternoon was spent lazing on the beach with a small fire, sparkling wine and a BBQ lunch. The weather was beautiful.

We had no luck fishing from shore or off the boat.

The next day the weather was not very good, and during a walk to the lookout at the other end of the cove, we were caught in a downpour. However, we experienced some great views of Thorfinn at anchor on this walk and a close up “meet and greet” with a wombat.

We also visited the boaties campground and looked at the names of the various boats which had anchored in the cove before us. We decided to add Thorfinn to the list and inscribed a plaque as we passed the cold, wet afternoon watching DVDs.

Dwayne added our plaque to the others.

We left Refuge Cove at 2200 that night and began our sail through the Bass Strait Oil Fields to Eden.

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