Day 72, Depart for Airlie Beach

Well........what a stuff up. We have run out of gas on the boat. With all the excitement in leaving Mackay, I forgot to fill up the bottles. So it is time to pull up the pick and head for all the action at Airlie. The breeze was up around the 20-25kt level so it was quite a quick sail through the Whitsunday passage, between long and sth Molle islands, past shute harbour and around Pioneer rocks and up the bay to Airlie. We were to spend the next few days in Airlie doing all the choirs and getting ready to head out to all the islands.